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I have some good news - my office is getting brand new dell computers next week which means I should be able to download some of my digital photo's soon! The IPPF office is great! I'll write more about it in a couple of days.

For those of you who know Ronnie (or Arnav as he likes to be called now) I met up with him last night. He's really grown up (almost 30 now)! Although he's still wearing the blue shirt and white khaki pants as always. He has even stop chasing the German ashram girls and found himself a very sweet Punjabi Hindu named Anjali. Anjali and I spent the night talking and walking around a very nice market area of Hauz K (the district that they live in). In typical Ronnie fashion, he's already called me twice today and planned to show me about 50 things in the city and introduce me to everyone he knows. I've even been invited to Anjali's brothers wedding. Which I'm actually quite excited for. It's in Amister (incorrect spelling, sorry) which is where the Sikh Golden Temple is. I've been wavering about whether to go to Amister because the city itself is supposedly very boring and it's quite a distance from Delhi but now that I have another reason to go it works out perfect! It's nice to have an old friend here. However, my god, everyone can't stop trying to feed me and they don't take "no thanks" or "I'm full" for an answer. Even when you say your full or that you just ate they look at you, usually pick up your arm and squeeze it (checking for fat) and then look into your eyes - I swear unless I'm green in the face they say "oh you're too skinny, here I'll just make you a little something". I must have had a whole loaf of bread this morning (I'm not kidding, at all, I wish I was) and that's because I agreed to ONE piece of toast. Haha I'm sorry Tammy! I promised I wouldn't get boring and tell you what I ate for breakfast!
During the day yesterday I went to Connaught Place. I have vowed to see at least 1 different part of the city per week so I thought I'd start with an area where I've been before. BIG mistake. Connaught is a dirty, stinky mess. Delhi is building a metro. A metro is a very very good idea. Delhi is huge and spread out. The local buses are crowded noisy contraptions that serve the lower caste (besides the morning (8-9am) exec. Commuters) so many people in Delhi are forced to use taxis or autos (auto rickshaws) which can take horrendous amount of time to get someplace. However, the metro line which will go through central Delhi has been under construction for years. This has left Connaught Place in a huge mess. I, looking like a real newbie to India with my cotton pants and hippie shirt, got harassed like crazy and after walking around for hours I found out that the HKBC bank that I needed had "fell over" last year and they hadn't gotten around to rebuilding yet. Hmm. I did however met a great many people (the majority of who where Indian men interested in a lone girl wandering around Connaught apparently lost) I did however meet a very nice Calgarian in town shooting a documentary on Sikhs who is going to show me around a bit. It was nice to be reminded how friendly India is.
I guess that's it. I promise next time that I write a big boring long entry I'll include at least one pretty picture.
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Michelle (or Moesha as the maid BeBe calls me or Micha as everyone else spells my name)

p.s. I write good english :P Sorry for the grammar and just plain barbaric english in this entry I'm loosing my English skills already.