...Indian women apply "fair and lovely" or various other forms of skin lightener. Does anyone else find this sort of perverse? Every cosmetic company has their own version too: chanel, Loriel, mabeline, etc. This is not a beautification reserved for the women though. There is a mens skin lightener as well! It's considered more beautiful to have fair skin. My friend Sarah analogized it to hair relaxers that people in the states use. I think their dark skin is beautiful! As for me, I bust my booty to the tanning salons twice weekly (if I'm not too lazy to go) and apply a bronzer to my cheeks each and every morning.
Although I'm having a great time traveling around on the weekends, I'm also having just as much fun right here in Delhi. Last night I met up with some friends from the states who are here visiting friends. They are Christine and Lydia who know the Sharber's (friends from Gonzaga for those who don't know), and their friends Mahima, Kunal, Sammar, and a few others whos names I am forgetting. We all went out to dinner and then dropped them at the airport so they could catch their flight home. Dinner was at this really great place that had a live singer! He took requests and sung both Hindi and American pop songs all night long. I wanted Britney Spears, Toxic....but no luck on that one! Mahima's friend knew the owner of the restaurant so we had the best seat in the house, our food was ready when we got their, and our drinks seemed bottomless. I chatted up Kunal who goes to Duke and is from Phoenix about how much I absolutely despise Duke basketball. ;) A little rivalry never hurt anyone...right? We had fun slamming each others teams for a while.
On Monday I joined a yoga studio! It's a proper Indian yoga centre that started as an ashram in Rishikesh. It's much different than yoga in the states and in my humble opinion, much better. So I go to class monday, tues, thurs, & fri. for two weeks and then have one week of free open classes after that. Which is perfect because after three weeks I'll be leaving Delhi anyway. It's from 6:30 to 8:00pm, which makes my days pretty full here during the week. I like it that way though.
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