We went camping in Coorg at a coffee plantation. Amazing! Once in a lifetime experience. Everyone became very close (thanks to campfire n booze) and we hiked the tropical forest to eventually arrive at a beautiful waterfall! Our guide let us rope down the waterfall, which was tight, but then he dared us to climb it!! Ehsan was the only one to do it, and everyone wanted me to do it too, but I thought my wrist wasn;t strong enough. :( I took my first hot shower at the plantation. I can't describe my feelings at that moment. It was like my own moment of clarity for those 10 minutes. We went to a buddhist temple called the Golden Temple, and we also went to a elephant training camp. It's actually pretty sad seeing the elephants being hit and chained up... But we we're told this is normal. We swam in the same river the elephants swim, drink, and poop in. It was awesome! The Golden Temple was freaking awesome! The architecture is simply beautiful and the attention to detail is unparrelleled. The temple is actually a buddhist school, so walking around you see a bunch of young boy monks mixed with all these old men monks. Pretty interesting! We sat in on a musical class, and the sounds that were exiting that room were pretty weird/creepy. The statues and sculptures are HUGE and covered in gold. The buddhists do it right.





Last night, our Indian friends got the school to sponsor a "group party" by RENTING OUT AN ENTIRE NIGHT CLUB!!! Free booze, music, food, and fun. Eric, you would have loved it. The DJs love American hiphop n stuff like that, so it was freakin sweet.

Monsoon season has definitely settled in, so the rain comes down like cats n dogs now. Seattle's got nothing when comparing the rain fall here in south India during the monsoon... It's still hot though, so you can't really wear a raincoat, so we rock the umbrella. ella. ella.

I realize that my work here is NOT going to take me 3 months lol, so I'm going to travel India with a couple people for a week or so. It seems most interns here finish their work early and then either bounce early to home or travel India. I think I may do both. FUN!!! The boys n I are headin to Goa this weekend via train, and so far we haven't fully planned ANYTHING... Just how to get there. It doesn't matter though cuz we're good at improv at this point.