Janpath

I had my first full day working with the children and it was utterly chaotic. The teacher left me and the other volunteer alone and they went CRAZY haha. I mean I expected that but it's so hard to control them when they don't speak a word on English. I will never forget how to say sit down in Hindi. I can promise you that.

We realized that we have to make really well thought out plans before we go and plan for failures in our plans lol. I have a new respect for teachers. I have NO IDEA how they do what they do. I'm going to do a bunch of research on teaching non-English speakers.

After that we had our second Hindi lesson and decided to go to Janpath to shop.

This is a picture I took along the way:

I know, I know.. it's an amazing picture....

I bought a bunch of things including some jewelry, art, and scarves. I even bought a bed spread because I wanted it from Anthropologie and it was over $600. I got it for 1500Rs. haha $60. The funniest thing was haggling with the merchants. They were NOT all about putting the prices down but some of them were charging way more than others for the same thing.

Tip: always quote lower than you're willing to pay and if you are not doing well, start to walk away. This is when they will give you the "special India price, only for you" haha.

It got late so we had to go back to our flat and had dinner.

The food here is so amazing, I've never ate so much food in my life. They make us American food sometimes and it's very different and very good!

After dinner we went for a walk around the neighborhood and I was dead tired and had to go to sleep right away.

This is a picture of the market place where I bought my bedspread: