diwali

Hey All

Wow so much has happened since dehli. We finished our service learning projects and went to goa for a long weekend.

ohh and i realized that i forgot to tell you all about DIWALI! Wow so this is the festival of lights and we went to dehli to celebrate it! This is pretty much the christmas for india and its very family oriented and you save up your money for this holiday to give your family presents and women always get a new diwali sari. So we celebrated by walking to the nearby neighborhood by our hotel and buying about 15 dollars worth of fireworks. Every house had lights outside and we all bought these yellow carnation necklaces. These carnations are EVERYWHERE in india. They are hanging on offices, homes and stores. Also women wear these white flowers in their hair. So walking down this street in dehli was magical. families in the street together lighting fireworks and crackers and the entire neighborhood was outside. It was so beautiful. We got our whole group together and we lit fireworks in the street with this family and they were so sweet and we have a lots of pictures and movies of all of us yelling happy diwali to each other. The family had some HUGE fireworks that would never be legal in the US and i got pelted with one and had a huge bruise for a good week after diwali. We also got harassed by what we call "feral children" these are kids who are wild. Probably homeless or are very poor and are somewhat animal like. I know this is a crazy concept to think of but thats just all i can think of how to describe them. They have no manners and just do things like grabbing you and touching you and pulling money out of your hand without any concept of manners or how you would expect a child of that age to act.