Thursday, April 10, 2008

Travel to Cuddapah

So after about 30 hours of travel we finally arrive in Chennai India where upon we load on to a bus at around midnight and start a 9 hour bus ride to Cuddapah where the school is located. Along the way we had to of course have a couple of potty breaks the first of which took place in the wee dark hours of the morning. We stopped and as I awoke I saw a building and was thinking it was time for a potty break. I got out along with a number of others and the girls were instructed to go around one side of the structure while the boys were to go on the other side. As I'm standing there taking care of business I realize we are at a persons house and then we hear a dog barking in the house, one of the boys then thinks the sees movement in the house. At this point I realize there are a bunch of Americans standing on the lawn of an Indians house relieving themselves, boy this felt awkward. I finish up and quickly start moving to the bus at which time the gentleman of the house comes out and his little dog in toe. Then the girls come around the other side of house as the man stares and motions to either them or the dog (who was yapping) to cease or leave. It must have been weird for this poor man to have over a dozen Americans use his yard as their latrine. Well from there we went on and the next potty stop was the more conventional yet filthy gas station. The second pic is the sign for the bathroom, notice the female is in a sari, I thought that was cool. Next time our arrival in Cuddapah and the school.

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