I learned Cricket! Today I went to a cricket match (IPL league Delhi vs Bangalore) and Delhi won. I've had people try to explain the game but it never made any sense. 10 minutes into sitting down at the game, it all clicked. Okay, maybe not all but pretty close to it.
The tickets said no cameras so I took pics/videos on my phone. Will update them tomorrow morning. One of the guys in front of us was so into the game, he was dancing around and carrying on. And then they started playing Punjabi music and the guys in the crowd would literally stand up and stand on their seats, fingers pointed in the air, and their shoulders would start twitching in time to the beat. It was AWESOME until the top balcony would start throwing paper over the balcony and hitting people. When Rahul and I got to the stadium, the area was relatively clean. After, it was the biggest shit-hole of a mess. Imagine a football game afterward and all the garbage everywhere, and multiply it by about 100; that was this stadium.
We had to park so far away from the stadium and I wore the wrong flip-flops and now I have a blister on each foot. I guess that means I gotta take it easy tomorrow :( I was looking forward to walking to the market and picking up some food and maybe another bunch of flowers for my room.
Oh, and when Rahul dropped me off, I swear I heard a monkey up in the tree! I saw a bat fly over head but as I walked up to the gate, I heard what sounded like a monkey! I stopped, looked up at the trees, but there was nothing there and the trees weren't moving. Maybe it was the bat? So I closed the gate and started to walk to my room, and I heard the sound again! So I stopped and was 85% sure it was a monkey, then realized that I was all alone and I had nothing to protect me if a monkey decided to come down from the tree and "play"...and then I walked VERY quickly to my room, locked the door and then called Rahul to see if monkeys did hang out in Delhi. Sure enough, they do in the residential areas but it's not very common.
To recap, I've had an "encounter" with an elephant and now a monkey (which I couldn't actually see).
Welcome to India
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