guess what?! my adopted mom on the ship (we have this extended family program), Peggy, is a Maniac! she's from Forest City, up by the New Brunswick border.
i learned this as we were leaving Chennai. i ALSO learned how they pick up the fifth-deck gangway, which is long and steep, hoist it up, flip it over and stick it on top of the ship. it's pretty cool! i waited FOREVER to watch them take it in because the Indian immigration guys were simply NEVER going to leave; they give them the delicious food on the fancy ship, so there really is no incentive to go down the long and steep gangway and through the throng of head-waggling (more on head-waggling later for those of you who have never been to india) men with AK47s and back into the warehouse that was our berth except that the ship will never give them their passports back.
Nancy and i also had a long and interesting conversation about service visits/how she thinks that i don't have to fail at life and made me realize how creative being an only child made me. and also, if i'm real tired tomorrow, it's because they kept making announcements all night to PLEASE CONSERVE WATER. WE GET IT, THANK YOU, DEAN GLATFELTER. really, my shower from today will last me LOOOONG after we make it around Sri Lanka and back to the world of ocean that isn't so dirty that our filters can't process it, he doesn't even know. preaching to the choir, my friend.
sometime in the near future will come the entry on our rickshaw-intensive adventure today. not for the weak of stomach. but yeah, there's already the beginning of an entry on what i actually did in india; i'll publish it soooon.
oh ps one more funny story! tonight we had "shabbat", which mostly meant that we ate challah. and Perry (he's Filipino (crew)) came up to me and was like "what's that?" and i said "Challah - the food of the Jews!" and he said "the juice?!" again, funny at the time.
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no, the jews being interperted as the juice is just always funny I think.
I had a great chat with senor jer-don the EC grad spanish teacher in spanish about sus amigo de Presque Isle maine quien es un gay y como sus dos hermanos tambien son gay, y yo preguntando como viven in PI...dios, es tan atrasada....hmm.
te quiero! I'm caught up! i didnt think it was possible! I DID IT!
te extranyo tambien...un monton. chau babe
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now that I've caught up, I'm disappointed when there is nothing new. GOSH.
today a choir lady, Sheila, laughed when I kept refering to my friend from dedham or my dedham friend. and when I was like, well her name is emily, she laughed and was like, well, I like my dedham friend a whole lot. and i'm like, funny -- me too! love yo.
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