The last few days...

So, Kristin and I have been working our butts off at Navdanya. I am working on food safety laws and a bunch of other stuff and Kristin has a project with global food movements. We have fallen into a bit of a daily routine with our morning 5 rupee coffee and walk to work.

Tuesday we went to work and came home. Nothing too exciting. However, at night, there were fantastic lightning storms! I will try to post some of these movies so people can see, but I'm not so sure that they turned out well. The lightning storm was intense eerie because there was no sound of thunder. Plus, lightning was nearly constant for the hour that we watched. It rained a bit too so I fell asleep on a chair on the deck.







Wednesday was hot! We went to work, spent all day there and then walked home really sweaty. In the evening, we went for a run around the lake near our house. It was muggy, so neither of us stopped sweating for about an hour afterwards.

We decided that we wanted to eat out, so we went to the Park Baluchi restaurant in Hauz Khas. Park Baluchi means "deer park" and I have, to date, seen no deer in the park. The sign outside of the restaurant claims that it was voted the best restaurant in India by the tourism department. If this is the case, the tourism department needs to be disbanded. The set up was really nice, but the food was actually pretty terrible considering the price. Plus, the service was really slow. It was cool inside, though, so not all bad. After that, I watched Billy Madison with the guys and Kristin went to bed.

On thursday, we got up, showered, had coffee, and started walking to work. On the way there, we saw a mongoose cross the street! We made it to work, kicked ass there, and then stopped to get some sweets on the way home. We worked out and went to Tasnim's place for some dinner.

Then... the greatest movie of all time came on the tv. It's called "Rocky - the Rebel" and it is the best movie I have ever seen by far. It starts with this tough, pretty boy guy named Rocky singing and dancing on the top of a tall building, "Rocky... Rocks the world!" and then the next twenty minutes are about him slapping people around, getting mad, fighting with his dad, getting arrested, opening a cyber cafe, fighting goons, etc... he meets a girl and falls in love, then she gets killed by the mob, so Rocky's parents take him to London. Rocky gets a new girlfriend in one day, though, even though he is emotionally shattered. So he's completely depressed and all these scenes are about how sad he is... then right in the middle of this, there is a huge theatrical dance and song with hip hop dancing and upbeat music... right afterwards it goes back to being sad. hahahahaha. This movie is truly the greatest thing I have ever seen. Everyone needs to watch it. I predict that it will become a cult classic.

Beyond that, we are just getting ready for the weekend. We might go shopping tonight at a new market or maybe go to a Hindi movie with Manu and Mukesh.