Good afternoon,

If someone could tel my mom about this blig that would be sick, I think I lost her email address, oops. My life at the moment in brief:

Things are going really well now, we're all pretty jet-lagged still, so we haven't been having the greatest sleep, but I know I've only got a few more days like this before I'm over it so it's chill. When I am asleep I've been having the most vivid and crazy dreams that all involve Victoria and my friends. I'll wake up and I'll be like oh, I miss my leather jacket, I'll just walk over to my closet and...wait a minute, where am I? is that a pack of wild street dogs I hear fighting outside?
I know Jo has been having the same kinds of dreams.

It helps that it's actually so different here that there is absolutely nothing to remind me of home, the only thing I have to compare it to is other places that I've traveled to. It's like another way of life, I'm just a guest in this culture and I just HAVE to accept everything I'm seeing and doing.

Example: There is a buddhist monk dressed in saffron robes from head to toe using the computer beside me as "Smack That" by Akon is playing on the stereo. It's 26 degrees outside and about 20 feet down the lane there are a few cows munching on some garbage outside the district gates. And as far fetched and bizarre as that would be at home, I mean REALLY bizarre at home... it's normal here, life as usual. And I LOVE it.

We're headed to Jaipur tonight by train, and we bought sleeper tickets so we get bunks to sleep on! I'm SO stoked. We haven't seen any gross bugs yet, but loads of gross dogs and cows that wander wherever they want to, and people just ignore them or touch them as they pass for good luck or something, I don't know. I'm still figuring these things out.

Wish us safe travels to Jaipur, I know we're al realy excited about our first train ride. I'll talk to you about it in a couple of days.

Talk to you soon,
-Ben