1) Indians eat with their hands. As if I don't eat fast enough already, I can now put food in my mouth at lightning speed. Bad news for my hosts (and it makes every meal feel like a snack). But it makes things so easy!
2) Any color traffic light means the same thing: Stop, go, hang out and chat, honk your horn seventeen million times to "let them know you're pulling out" even if seventeen million others are honking and pulling out at that exact moment. Any backseat driver tendencies I had are completely out.
3) All Indian children look like dolls. They are so beautiful and smile all the time. I can't wait to start teaching.
4) This is the biggest place in the world. I literally have no idea where I am. I usually get my bearings pretty quickly in new cities - I still cannot be sure where the elevator in my building is. Fortunately I am not in charge of finding myself food or transportation yet (I am fully incapable of crossing the street alone - see #2) I have a driver who is right there the second I walk out of any building, and he magically always knows where I need to be and at what time. There is something very freeing about being lost all the time with no idea what is up next (next I'll be doing yoga in the backseat)
5) Everyone is so happy I am here. So far the family members I have met are the most welcoming people - not overbearing or super attentive so I feel relaxed and almost like I am a part of the family. I have discovered the secret behind all this: the father of the family I am staying with tonight, Rajan, confessed to me that he has four daughters who all live abroad and he misses having young girls in the house. We just returned from a dance show where I kept catching his wife looking over at me to make sure I was enjoying it. So sweet.
Off to Coimbatore tomorrow to see the school and help prepare for the opening day of the semester!
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