I just finished writing Calcutta Wedding, so I'm a bit tired, but I just wanted to say that tomorrow I'm flying to Sri Lanka. I can't believe I'm leaving India now... it's so weird. I'm going to miss this country!
I just spent the last 5 days in an ashram. It was a little milatiristic. I made friends with this awesome girl, Kori.
They have this rule that you can't leave the ashram until 10:30am (you have to be back by 2pm!) and you need an outpass to leave. Kori and I wanted to go to this elephant sanctuary where they bathe the elephants from 9-11 am. We wanted to see and help(!) with the bathing, so we asked at reception if we could skip the breakfast at 10 and leave early. She said no, relax, go eat breakfast and go after. Kori and I were not impressed with her answer. Yesterday we left yoga class a little early, quickly changed and then ran past the guard at 10 and went anyway. It was pretty funny. Alas, we missed the bathing of the elephants anyway. It was okay though, because we got to ride them and feed them bananas. We decided to go back today. We were both leaving today anyway, so we checked out at 8 and took a rickshaw to the sanctuary. We were the only tourists there and so this morning Kori and I helped bathe an elephant. It was amazing! Before the bathing was over, a group of tourists arrived, which Kori and I took as our cue to leave. Then we stopped and saw the crocodiles at another reserve... we weren't allowed to bathe them. Huh.
Ugh, I should go though. I need to get some rest before my big day tomorrow, also I'm being eaten alive in this cyber cafe. So damn itchy!!!
Sri Lanka here I come!
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