please work *attempt 13

I hope my stars are good today, this net thing has been a bad expereince during this summer with multiple trials all failing. just five minutes ago i was dancing about getting stares as the owner went on teh computer beside me. i think he thought i had no money but the fact was that i had to pee but couldn't leave as there was no bathroom and i managed to long on to web messenger after an hour of trying. So here i am now with one week left of my trip and leaving out of the city of chennai for a round trip that will take the rest of the week. I get singled out pretty easily since i speak perfect english with a western accent and my tamil is perfect and unslanged. see, here, nobody speaks tamil properly, and its all cut up and heavily mixed with english. sometimes, well almost always, your have no idea what they're trying to say. all this even though tamil is the official language here and all the movies have it spoken perfectly, but its not like that here.

in the three weeks, i've suffered water shortages, throwing up in city streets twice on two seperate occasions, large rashes from scratching mosquitoe bites, being almost run over, car breaking down, stray dogs chasing me, and being mobbed by the poor for change. this country is seriously in the dumps, garbage is everywhere and states are in constant struggle with each other as there is no nationalism in this country. All this and the notion that i school starts tomorrow and i come back the 13th and get no chance to readjust slowly to school, and since i couldn't pick up my time table and my sister couldn't get it, i don't even know what my classes are for first semester. I'm really screwed up right now.

i get to escape from my problems as two wedding have been completed one my fathers side and we're now free to travel about and get out of the city and into the country side which is very beautiful. looking at garys pictures, i'm not the only one having fun, with these bastards forgetting me and having fun and going about with their guitars and daniels house and there adventures here and there and everywhere... it was sad because i couldn't comment on anything that was going on, all i could do was was observes the events from afar....

So my stay here is pretty much visiting the great temples of hindu religion agiing more that two thousand years. Non of them (except one but thats cuz people give millions to it because of the power it holds and how my dad jokes its where god is accepting bribes) are well kept with beggers everywhere and the priest pocketing have the money instead of spending it on keeping the temple together. I can't say much because politics are really bad here and people throw garbage everywhere and the lines on the road are for decoration. There will be three lanes and five vechiles going parallel with inches between them. traffic here is horrible but its amazing at how good peoples spacial awareness is.

Money is everything here and its plenitful for me since $1 = about 34 rupees (indian currency) and in india

255ml bottle of pop is 6 rupees
complete luxury meal for one is 150
train ticket is 10 rupees
internet cafe is 15 rupees per hour

well... i gotta go now, i hope this works..... this is most likely the only time i'll post.... so meh...... jon and gary have alot of talking to do.... does bastards