Cheering in the rain!
It's been almost a week since I have arrived in india...My family is freaking out because of my previous email (contents much similar to the blog below)... Urm...now I feel guilty for misrepresenting India.
Firstly, this is a beautiful place. The problem is not the weather or the crazy rickshaw drivers on the street... I just wasn't used to it and I freaked out. Slowly but surely, I am finding things that are beautiful about this place...Baroda at least.
Yesterday, I was at Rucha's house. Rucha is an AIESECer too...and we had gone to her house after welcoming a German trainee to baroda. :) Anyway, we were about to leave for a meeting when it started to rain. Large drops of water falling from the sky slowly...*pit*pat*
I felt it falling on my face and my first instinct was to run for cover...like I would have in Singapore or anywhere else... Suddenly I hear this loud eruption of cheers in the entire neighborhood! Children and adults cheering...it was surreal because Rucha's house faces a big field and I can't see people across the field very clearly. But I can hear clapping from across the field and before I know it, Rucha is running out onto the road and skipping around telling me that "it's a blessing from the Gods! Isn't it beautiful?" (I was witnessing my first Rain Dance. heh!)
My first monsoon rain....I wasn't sure what to do...I have been taught to run for shelter when it rains, not dance in it! I have been used to hearing curse the skies when it rains, not call it a blessing from the Gods! I hesitate and Rucha tells me to come onto the roads... I can smell the earth and walk onto the dark road laughing. It feels wierd but I like the feel of the rain on my skin... Surreal...
Later I find out that India only gets rain during the monsoon season and the people have been waiting for one whole year for the first rain. Other times, it's hot and dusty...that is why everyone is so happy when it rains.
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