Hey everybody, Happy New Year!
I had a great time along with most of the other exchange students. Our New years bash was thrown by the Sweet Keerthana (from the rotex) who was nice enough to have us all over! We had a blast and danced all night... There was no fireworks - not at all like in Denmark. I guess this year is just all about trying new things and having different experiences that I could not have dreamed of when at home!
But the celebration of new years also means that I have only 5 months left of my beloved exchange :( Cant even dream of packing my bags anytime soon... I feel really great in my current host family and I really wish I could just stay here for the rest of the time (they are my 3rd), but I dont know whether or not that is possible.
I feel like I have been living in Mumbai for my whole life - I've become so accustomed to the food, I listen to the Bollywood music that in the beginning just seemed annoying to my danish ears, but that i now enjoy very much (Sheila Ki Jawani, Anjaana Anjaani, Tujhe Bhula Diya, Badnaam Munny and all those) I actually enjoy the crowded trains (hate to admit that I very much enjoy getting to push those -very- pushy ladies! If they push I push!), I cant Imagine not getting up in the morning and going to Santa Cruz for my yogalessons and stopping for coconutwater or a guava on the way back to the stations afterwards. I love having a day at home just wearing my extremely comfortable Salvar Kameez all day and having a Mango lassi in the afternoon (everything is better with Mango!!!!!!!!!!!!). Taking a rickshaw to go to the station even though its just 2-300 meters away just because its only Rs.11 (ca. 1,4 kroner). I cannot Image how it is going to be to live in a city that will not be completely on hold for a day or two just because of one of the million annual festivals :)The people, the food, the surroundings, the home, the families, the clothes, the way of life - I enjoy every minute of it!
That was my little ode to my life as an exchange student in Mumbai... Ill go now, dinner time! ... more food! yum!
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2 January 2011
18 December 2010
Pictures from Diwali (better late than never)
So for Diwali I was with my new family. I had a lot of fun with my host mom and host sister making different sweets and special Indian dishes because all of my host moms family was coming to stay at our place during the holidays. We made laddu's and Chakli's, the Chakli's I really enjoyed (though they don't really qualify as sweets since they are more spicy than sweet.
It is custom to wear new clothes for the main evening of Diwali so my hostfamily had gotten me this amazing turqoise and Ivory coloured saree. This is a picture of me, my youngest host sister Juili and my host dad :)
17 December 2010
Status
162 days spent in India so far.
201 days to go.
5 trips out of Mumbai(Safala, Lonavala, RYLA, South tour and Bordi + Kutch and Pune coming up).
3 hostfamilies.
52 hindi letters - 10 vowels, 2 modifiers (?) and 40 consonants i had to learn by heart.
Uncountable numbers of mango juice.
Insane amounts of hours spent in Mumbai's local trains...
1 big fat indian wedding - soon to be two :D
5 major religious festivals celebrated (Ganpati, Janmashtami, Nav raatri, Diwali and Rakhsha bandhan)
14 letters and packages from home (friends and family together)
5 letters sent back home + 6 packages
waaaayyy too many rupees spent
7 times did I bake danish pastries - alt fra Kringle og brunsviger til hinbaersnitter og kanelsnegle altid vellykket og vellidt - Selvfoelgelig!
4 yogaclasses per week! lately they have been done along with Janina (USA) <3
15 other exchangestudent-friends + many many many indians!
4 danish dinners cooked (f.eks. lammefrikadeller med remoulade og kartoffelsalat eller vegetarlasagne med raakost, groen salat, og floede kartofler)
very few times have I been up before 7.30 in the past 5 1/2 months :P
1 run after I stepped unto the scale the first month and realised I had put on two kg's in 30 days.
3 kg's gained since my arrival (a number I'm rather proud of! for other inbounds it has been as high as 10 !!! )
16 degrees is the coldest i have experienced in the past 5 1/2 months
100000000 ... new dishes tasted (or at least that is how it feels)
1 birthday with 3 birthday cakes and tiramisu-cake in my face and my hair (det lignede til forveksling at nogen havde knaekket sig direkte i frisuren :S )!
3 saris!
7 indian outfits, punjabi suits, salwar kameez or whatever you choose to call it.
3746 photos
and
infinite numbers of priceless experiences that i wouldnt have missed for the world! I love India, I love Mumbai and I love life as an exchangestudent!
201 days to go.
5 trips out of Mumbai(Safala, Lonavala, RYLA, South tour and Bordi + Kutch and Pune coming up).
3 hostfamilies.
52 hindi letters - 10 vowels, 2 modifiers (?) and 40 consonants i had to learn by heart.
Uncountable numbers of mango juice.
Insane amounts of hours spent in Mumbai's local trains...
1 big fat indian wedding - soon to be two :D
5 major religious festivals celebrated (Ganpati, Janmashtami, Nav raatri, Diwali and Rakhsha bandhan)
14 letters and packages from home (friends and family together)
5 letters sent back home + 6 packages
waaaayyy too many rupees spent
7 times did I bake danish pastries - alt fra Kringle og brunsviger til hinbaersnitter og kanelsnegle altid vellykket og vellidt - Selvfoelgelig!
4 yogaclasses per week! lately they have been done along with Janina (USA) <3
15 other exchangestudent-friends + many many many indians!
4 danish dinners cooked (f.eks. lammefrikadeller med remoulade og kartoffelsalat eller vegetarlasagne med raakost, groen salat, og floede kartofler)
very few times have I been up before 7.30 in the past 5 1/2 months :P
1 run after I stepped unto the scale the first month and realised I had put on two kg's in 30 days.
3 kg's gained since my arrival (a number I'm rather proud of! for other inbounds it has been as high as 10 !!! )
16 degrees is the coldest i have experienced in the past 5 1/2 months
100000000 ... new dishes tasted (or at least that is how it feels)
1 birthday with 3 birthday cakes and tiramisu-cake in my face and my hair (det lignede til forveksling at nogen havde knaekket sig direkte i frisuren :S )!
3 saris!
7 indian outfits, punjabi suits, salwar kameez or whatever you choose to call it.
3746 photos
and
infinite numbers of priceless experiences that i wouldnt have missed for the world! I love India, I love Mumbai and I love life as an exchangestudent!
3 October 2010
A quarter of my exchange is done!
Everyone at home has now been asking for a new post for quite a whilenow. Im sorry for the long gaps between my updates but I must point out that before Im able to write amazing posts about all my new experiences, I actually have to experince them!
So much has happened since last time I made a blog-post, and I wont write about everything, because that would bore both me and my readers to death before i finish.
3 months has passed, and a quarter of my stay is now completed... Yesterday I got a mail informing me about my returnticket - I am leaving on the 7th of july, after 362 days in incredible India! I felt so surreal to be reminded that at one point this year will come to an end, I still remember the thrill of reading a mail wherein I was referred to as an Inbound instead of an outbound!
October has now come, and with it came overwhelming temperatures(yesterday we reached 39∘and today its even hotter!)... Its vital that I remember to bring my waterbottle everywhere I go, and I try to have fresh coconutwater on a daily basis.
A couple of days ago Janina, my good american friend, slept over at my place. We had spent the entire day shopping for fabric and dressmaterials, and my hostmom had taken us to this big wholesale place where we could get some amazing materials for our indian outfits - cause thats another thing I have to tell all of you! I am going to start wearing traditional indian clothes (salwar kameez and stuff like that) every monday, wednesday and friday(because those are the days I have my kathaklessons, and for the danceclasses one must wear traditional indian. It’s really a royal pain to be carrying all the clothes around all day until the lessons and indian clothes are soooo comfortable, so the easiest thing is just to wear it on a daily basis!)!
2 Days ago Rotex Bombay arranged a country celebration, 4 countries were subjects of the day and Denmark were one of them. Since 11 o’clock in the morning I had been at Aanchals place (indian girl who had gone on exchange to Denmark 5 years ago) and we had been baking a danish pastry called Kringle! It turned out perfect, and I totallyburned my tongue when I tried to eat a small piece the moment it had come out of the oven. It was good that we had baked the pastry, because that was just about all that we had to showcase for all the other in- and rebounds, Christian had brought a retro style football jersey from ‘88 and we played Nephew on the stereo!
And yesterday, Janina and I went to Oneza’s place and we baked pastry all day again! This time we tried to make Hindbærsnitter (?raspberry chops?) and again everything turned out great!
A lot more has happened in the last couple of weeks, but this is all I am giving you for now... I hope everything is going great back in little Denmark.
So long
Maria
So much has happened since last time I made a blog-post, and I wont write about everything, because that would bore both me and my readers to death before i finish.
3 months has passed, and a quarter of my stay is now completed... Yesterday I got a mail informing me about my returnticket - I am leaving on the 7th of july, after 362 days in incredible India! I felt so surreal to be reminded that at one point this year will come to an end, I still remember the thrill of reading a mail wherein I was referred to as an Inbound instead of an outbound!
October has now come, and with it came overwhelming temperatures(yesterday we reached 39∘and today its even hotter!)... Its vital that I remember to bring my waterbottle everywhere I go, and I try to have fresh coconutwater on a daily basis.
A couple of days ago Janina, my good american friend, slept over at my place. We had spent the entire day shopping for fabric and dressmaterials, and my hostmom had taken us to this big wholesale place where we could get some amazing materials for our indian outfits - cause thats another thing I have to tell all of you! I am going to start wearing traditional indian clothes (salwar kameez and stuff like that) every monday, wednesday and friday(because those are the days I have my kathaklessons, and for the danceclasses one must wear traditional indian. It’s really a royal pain to be carrying all the clothes around all day until the lessons and indian clothes are soooo comfortable, so the easiest thing is just to wear it on a daily basis!)!
2 Days ago Rotex Bombay arranged a country celebration, 4 countries were subjects of the day and Denmark were one of them. Since 11 o’clock in the morning I had been at Aanchals place (indian girl who had gone on exchange to Denmark 5 years ago) and we had been baking a danish pastry called Kringle! It turned out perfect, and I totallyburned my tongue when I tried to eat a small piece the moment it had come out of the oven. It was good that we had baked the pastry, because that was just about all that we had to showcase for all the other in- and rebounds, Christian had brought a retro style football jersey from ‘88 and we played Nephew on the stereo!
And yesterday, Janina and I went to Oneza’s place and we baked pastry all day again! This time we tried to make Hindbærsnitter (?raspberry chops?) and again everything turned out great!
A lot more has happened in the last couple of weeks, but this is all I am giving you for now... I hope everything is going great back in little Denmark.
So long
Maria
2 August 2010
Rotary family-meeting
Last night we went to me second rotary meeting. It was "friendshipday" (didn't know what that was until yesterday, and the indians claimed it was a european thing!). And family-night at rotary!
All the rotarians had brought their children. The ladies had a sari-draping before the meeting (a pro sari-lady came, and showed all the different regional ways to drape a sari), Amazing experience. And all of the women had an opinion about how many times you had to fold the end, or if it was 1 or 1,5 times that you had to take the sari around the waist in a southindian wedding draping... The room was buzzing and it only got better when the waiter brought a big plate of pakoras!
then the time for the actual meeting occurred, and Because of family-day, it was filled with Games and people were singing and dancing... Amazing! It sure was different from what I have seen at the meetings in my home club...
Picture from the sari-draping
<3 Maria
All the rotarians had brought their children. The ladies had a sari-draping before the meeting (a pro sari-lady came, and showed all the different regional ways to drape a sari), Amazing experience. And all of the women had an opinion about how many times you had to fold the end, or if it was 1 or 1,5 times that you had to take the sari around the waist in a southindian wedding draping... The room was buzzing and it only got better when the waiter brought a big plate of pakoras!
then the time for the actual meeting occurred, and Because of family-day, it was filled with Games and people were singing and dancing... Amazing! It sure was different from what I have seen at the meetings in my home club...
Picture from the sari-draping
<3 Maria
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