Sunday, December 12, 2010

Lagging

We have been in Delhi for almost a full week now and the adults are still feeling a bit of the jet lag.  The kids have all recovered pretty well and for the most part so have the adults but there are times during the day that I feel myself listening to another person speak and wonder to myself, "am I drooling?"  My head is still in a fog at times.
We have been around town some, bought groceries, taken in a few events, tried some traditional India food.  We even found some gluten free options, what a wonderful treat!
The kids will be starting school after the holiday break so we are doing home school until then.  We visited the American Embassy School (AES) campus and it sure looks wonderful.  One thing the kids enjoyed learning is that the teachers from AES live at the school.  There are residence halls right on the campus and the teachers live right there.  It is just like what we all believed when we were in kindergarten, teachers really do live at the school.  There is a large climbing wall at AES that kid three is most taken in by.  He is very curious to know if you have to wear a harness to climb such a large wall.
We have seen different modes of transportation like the tuk tuk and different living accommodations.  We have seen stray dogs and cats, not monkeys yet.  We have seen cows, kid middle was most impressed by the large bull walking down the street and nobody paid it any mind.  They just walked by it like it was just another pedestrian.  We have gone out on our roof top and looked from high above and took a ride in tiny little taxi to watch from down low.  From inside our house at different times of day we can hear the chants sung for the Muslim's call to prayers.  We hear horns honk while in our house and even more when we are out in a taxi.  There are nice reminders painted on the traffic light posts NO HORN! that are completely ignored and slightly comical.  All of this in one weeks time.  We are excited to see what two years can show us.

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