What we take for granted...

At the risk of sounding cliched, I would like to open this post by saying; we really do have it way too good in Canada. I have spent less than a week in this country and have already noticed the vast discrepancy in facilities. It's taken me close to a week to get on the internet. The hardware here was maybe cutting edge four years ago. When I ask people at the various buildings I've visited if the have wireless internet, they look at me like "Oooh, la de da, he wants WiFi! Well, roll out the red carpet" (In Hindi, of course). Please forgive the exaggeration there. Everyone here has been extremely nice and as accommodating as possible. Truly, there is far too much to recant in the half an hour I have to eat yet another life-changingly delicious Indian meal (not sarcasm). Toronto cuisine has NOTHING on these people, NOTHING. In fact, one teen aged Indian Delhian described the very-possibly-best-Indian-meal-I've-ever-had as "terrible". My taste buds are getting excited.

I've taken quite a few pics, but can't get them from my computer to this one - so that's going to have to wait. However, I do have a better idea of what I'll be doing here:

(oh - this is a list)

- building (or rather re-building) a website (I met the original builder - he looked like he wanted to strangle me)

- teaching a number of deaf Delhians (oh, yeah, I'm working for the Deaf Way Foundation) how to use computers/software better - a nice segway into...

-learning sign language (I visited a Deaf Way picnic yesterday - there must have been 200 people there and you could have heard a pin drop)

- learning (and very probably butchering) a bit of the Hindi spoken language

- getting diarrhea (can't WAIT!)

- loosing all sensation in my mouth, then throwing myself off the nearest high building when they decide to stop humouring the white man and give me the REAL Indian spices

- finally getting my internal clock working properly - as I still wake up at about 4:30 am and putter on my internet-less computer or reorganize my mobile's Address Book for the eleven-hundredth time

- getting a tan, so I can 'blend in' with the locals

I promise to get all images taken up in the next few days. There has been much to tell and show. This is one crazy adventure.

Namaste,
M.