So enjoy the unedited version of Chris's email! Laura
hhmmmmmmm what was last email about well been here 3 days now..............kinda sad i rushed soo much at beginning and now at Udaipur for second time of 3 full days oh well it is beautiful quiet place and laura/i had miscommunication problem so i thought i had to be in bombay 1 day earlier than i actually have to been just walking round and talking w/locals totally 30 min. walk away from the tourist area less hassle here and the 'true' indian culture not the westernized culture like in the tourist areas yesterday i had awesoem chicken tandori i saw a sign.............................'chicken corner' and went to see sure enough i saw a huge stainless steel bowl full of orange sauce and about 15 lbs of cut up chicken no it wasn't covered by saran wrap or in glass enclosure or refrigerated at all...........................just i big ole bowl of chicken sitting in the sun flys everywhere and sittin in it's own juices my first thought good way to get food poisoning....................then i thought how after over 2 weeks here and not getting sick...............................really to get sick once wouldn't be that bad it was high time for me to get the shits anyways and i am sick of vegetables and ordering never knowing what i would get so i ordered chicken...............................................amazinging for .95 i got 1/2 breast and a thigh..................pretty much half a chicken i'd say and it was delicious only bad thing guy cooking it was cutting up raw chicken then squezzing my 2 peices i think to see if they were done or not either way it fully cooked and so tasety saw a lil homeless dirty kid the day before i refused to give money and he remembered me so i bought him food from street stall thinking hey it would give me good karma and maybe i wouldn't get sick...........haha cute kid either way after that i was walking down street and talked to 2 men.....................................45 minutes later i walked by their house and they called to me..............then gave me tour of their house intro'd to all family and all there neighbors crowded around mouths open just looking at me i told them i was going to watch sunset so they offered em a ride................................all 3 of us on a small bike but went to sunset point and they bought me a chai after they offered me ride home but said to stop at freinds well for about an hour we drove around and stopped at bout 5-6 places they intro'd me as their canadian freind then 2- 3 mins later we left for next place and saem thing over n over i got kinda sick of it almost like i was a prixe they were showing off...............but at gas stn i offered to pay for a bit of gas and they said no....................so they weren't triing to scam me as they turned down my money we went to one shop a woodcarvers and in the back room was bottle of whiskey and they gave me two drinks, lovely that the glass still has some of someone else's unfinished rye in it and they just filled more and gave to me(it is how it is in india no one is worried bout other peoples germs or sharing glasses) they dropped me off at hotel then asked if i wanted to jion them for a few drinsk at same shop through a man on the street selling things acting as our interpreteur i went and shop closed doors and they calls freinds(no doubt to tell of their 'prized' canadian freidn their.................but it actually turned out fun and we sat for about 3-4 hours
still loving it don't wanna leave money is so unimportant here and everyone puts up w/conditions being far from prissy or highmaintenance i like that everything so simple
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