Monday, September 22, 2008





We are having a great time here in Mclolo. Yesterday we went to the buddhist temple, and cara did some shopping.I did a little too. We had some tea with one of the shop owner's sons. Then later we went to dinner with him at this weird resturaunt that sold pizza and indian food. He spoke very good english and wanted very badly to be american. My favorite thing that he said was "sometimes they be talking on my back very bad things" reffering to bad friends. I thought that was hilarious. Everyone wants to have tea with you here it's kind of cool. In Delhi we had tea with a buddhist and an indian hindu guy, definately the most interesting conversation so far. We started talking about american politics, and then moved on to vegetarianism and other topics. The buddhist guy was a professor and the indian guy was an environmental activist. What struck me as odd was the indian was very republican, he was all about sara palin. Then yesterday we had a conversation with a very funny monk who walked with us. It seems like most of the conversations we have with these people end up to be about spirituality at some point.-Ashby

2 comments:

Cassandra Schiffler said...

Strange that the environmental activist was all about Sara Palin, considering that she initiated a lawsuit against listing polar bears as endangered, supports aerial hunting of wolves (even offered a bounty for one of their forelegs), and drilling in ANWR. Not so environmentally concerned.
Anyway... I wish I could be there, the pictures are beautiful and I am really happy that you are having a good time and meeting interesting people.

Photobug said...

Wow!! I want a monkey, they are so cute! It's so neat that you are getting to talk with all of those people. I wish I could be there! Love you guys!
Oh and does anyone else agree with me that these "word verifications" are hard to read anyways!?!?!