In less than two weeks, I will live in an apartment with a sea view. Amazing. You can Google "Colaba Post Office, Mumbai" and it will give you an approximate location. And for the record, I'm not living at the post office, just near the post office -- landmarks are key to addresses here. If you tried to get in a cab and tell them an address, they'd likely have no idea what you were talking about. You have to know the name of the neighborhood, major roads, key landmarks, and you'll get there.
Also, I am addicted to Kerala style food. I have gone from feeling a little weird about ordering fish and having it look like a fish (how American am I anyway?), to picking the fish up by the tail and flipping it over and rip off more of its delicious flesh with my bare hand. Also amazing.
Final point of amazement for the evening: It is 10:21 pm, and I am neither asleep nor drowsy. I am on a Mumbai schedule now, which means I haven't gone to bed before midnight in a while, and I need an alarm to wake me up for work in the morning. I went to an 11:20 movie the other night (sadly, we arrived late, so I missed the national anthem at the beginning, but I witnessed the intermission -- they literally cut in the middle of the reel and bring up the house lights so people will go get snacks, playing ads & previews meanwhile), and went to bed at 2 am, only to be awoken by my phone ringing close to 10 am. This is quite a departure from my Chicago schedule, which is a 9 hour sleep pattern that starts sometime during the 9 pm hour and ends in the 6 am hour without the use of an alarm. I feel healthy and happy, though; it's just odd to look at the clock sometimes.
Also, I am addicted to Kerala style food. I have gone from feeling a little weird about ordering fish and having it look like a fish (how American am I anyway?), to picking the fish up by the tail and flipping it over and rip off more of its delicious flesh with my bare hand. Also amazing.
Final point of amazement for the evening: It is 10:21 pm, and I am neither asleep nor drowsy. I am on a Mumbai schedule now, which means I haven't gone to bed before midnight in a while, and I need an alarm to wake me up for work in the morning. I went to an 11:20 movie the other night (sadly, we arrived late, so I missed the national anthem at the beginning, but I witnessed the intermission -- they literally cut in the middle of the reel and bring up the house lights so people will go get snacks, playing ads & previews meanwhile), and went to bed at 2 am, only to be awoken by my phone ringing close to 10 am. This is quite a departure from my Chicago schedule, which is a 9 hour sleep pattern that starts sometime during the 9 pm hour and ends in the 6 am hour without the use of an alarm. I feel healthy and happy, though; it's just odd to look at the clock sometimes.
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