Made it to India!

Didn't have Internet access until now so here is a quick update of the last few days - very eventful. And yes made it alive Dr. Mateo - and even met a cute girl at the gym today (she said she is a fashion model).

One thing I always wonder at the airport is if I will run into someone I might know. Well I didn't. But when I boarded the plane, the first person I ran into was a med school classmate, Sharon, who was headed to Korea. What are the odds of that? Someone smart calculate that and get back to me (comon you math majors).

So the first flight was somewhat eventful. Each seat has a little screen on it, but the interactive part wasn't working - so we were on our own for 13 hours. Therefore, my entertainment were the people around. The guy in front of me was drinking wine and eventually the hostess told him that she could not give him anymore. Well he didn't really like that answer and there was some serious discussion around that issue. He called the manager over and explained how he has been flying this airline for 20 years, etc. - it was entertaining. I barely made the second flight and ran across the entire Seoul airport to catch it. There was a sardarji (guy with turban - Sikh) on the flight. The little lights above the seats malfunctioned and started turning on automatically for a few seconds before turning off - this drove him crazy and he couldn't figure out what was going on - it was hilarious. Those that have heard of my movie script idea (Sardar in America) could appreciate this a bit more and I will have to add this into the script.

I landed in India and the first thing that happened was that my cousin's car didn't start. So we ended up having to push the car - that was my welcome to India! I even took some pictures of us pushing the car, but my cousin was mad at that one and he eventually got a hold of my camera and erased those pictures. The car did start once we figured out the problem. There is now CNG (compressed natural gas) in India. The cars run on both fuel and CNG, which is a cheaper cleaner alternative (maybe we need this stuff back home). He had CNG installed that very day and the new installation wasn't working properly and we switched the button back to regular fuel and it worked fine.

Today we drove around Delhi and took pictures (slideshow of these at end). There was a little girl carrying her sibling around the market, so I took some pictures of her.



Afterwards we stopped at a shop to buy a cellular phone. It was my 2 cousins (Anjul and Lucky). Anjul and I stood on the right side in the little shop. Lucky walked to the left and stood next to some random guy. He was looking the other way and a moment later his arm was around the random guy. Both Anjul and I looked at each other wondering what was going on - we figured he may know the guy. Then Lucky started playing with his ear, we tried hard to keep from bursting out into laughter to let this play out. Lucky thought he was standing next to Anjul until he looked over and was amply surprised. The guy didn't jump either - he couldn't see Lucky's face and he figured it might be some good friend of his. I think it could have even been better if it had been some random girl. I am sure he would have gotten a good beating from the crowd - if so, Anjul and I would have jumped in also and given him a slap with "behave yourself in public young man."

A few moments ago Lucky and I almost got killed by a bull. We were just standing in the alley and all of a sudden a bull came charging. The bull was chasing us, the dogs were chasing the bull, and I am not why the dogs were going crazy. Lucky ran and jumped into the bushes and I ran into the mechanic shop and jumped on this mechanic who was sitting there. Anything can happen at anytime here.