You know you are in India when….

With 3 days left, in honor of the month in India, we have compiled a list of the tell-tale signs that you are in fact… in India.
 

• You start to bobble your head side to side although you still don’t know why.

• You try to refuse second helpings of food, but instead you get twice as much as before.

• Your work out is confined to a foot x foot space.

• The power goes out at least 2 random times a day and you are never sure when it will come back on.

• It is weird not to throw your trash out the window.

• Men wear skirts, women’s legs are scandalous but showing your belly is ok.

• A man will walk up to the window of your car and stare at you for 5 minutes without saying a word.

• Hospitals are found in dark ally ways.

• You realize how uncomfortable it is to sit cross-legged.

• You will never get the curry stains out from under your fingernails.

• You can get two shots (one in the butt) and multiple prescribed drugs for under $5.

• You wake up to a 5-year old girl staring at you.

• You look and see 2 people, look away and back again to see 10 people, look away and back again to see 20 people all staring at you.

• When you dry off from your bucket shower you cant tell if you are still wet or just sweaty.

• A toilet that flushes and a shower that does not involve a bucket is high class.

• Your conversation is limited to “hi!”, “where are you from?” and “what is your name?”

• You are asked to sing for your breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• You eat sweet and spicy rice-like food for breakfast and curry and rice for lunch and dinner.

• The moment you decide to do laundry, you are surrounded by several Indian women who take your dirty clothes away and proceed to wash them all for you (including your dirty underwear).

• You go to a hospital and end up having tea with the doctor in his home after being treated.

• You are forced to take a nap.

• You walk out side of your apartment to see a camel giving rides to small children.

• A family of 4 fits on a small motorcycle (I reeeallly wish I had a picture of this one…)

• When you wake up to an Indian women pounding on your door with sweet rolls and chai tea at 6:30am (no complaints here!)

 
Some things we have gotten used to, some things would take more than a month to fully adjust to. To sum it up (using my very best Indian accent and head bobble) it has been  "So nice, so so nice" 🙂

Our home away from home, the trusty van that carted us around to the villages