..SouthAsiaRocks..

OK, so I played volleyball year round in high school, so when I see a volleyball game going, I get excited and I have to check it out... So, on our last day in B'lore, I was walking from the apartment I was staying in, and I saw a bunch of girls playing volleyball... I got closer thinking I was going to watch a serious match, but then noticed something different about this game... Nobody was hitting the ball... instead, they were throwing and catching it!!! In the picture below, you can see, one of the girls throwing... I mean, serving the ball :) It was awesome! They were "throw-spiking" the ball over the net! Now, the trick was, you could only hold the ball for a split-second... then you threw it over... there wasn't much of the good old "pass, set, hit" going on, but the game was quite exciting! You never know what you're going to see here in South Asia :)

Well, we're here in B'lore... but we've been in meetings most of the time that we've been here, so we don't have tons of pictures from this trip, BUT we have had a lot of fun and have seen some funny things :) One thing that is fun about being down south is that there are Coconut Trees!! Everyone has had fun trying to climb them :) Adam hasn't made it up to the coconuts yet... I think it's the "trying to figure out how to get down" thing that keeps him from going higher... for some reason, you can't go down the same way you go up... so he has a lot of "tree burns" from sliding down :) There is a LOT of traffic down here in B'lore... the other day we saw this funny little car driving in traffic... now, you may see these from time to time in America... but this is the first one we have seen here and it was sooo funny to see it in the traffic with the other cars :) It's amazing how many people they could put in that car!! If you...

Last night, Adam and I became the Wedding Crashers! Right now we are in the south of our country in a city called B'lore. On our way to dinner last night, we saw a HUGE wedding party on the palace grounds... it was a marriage between 2 families of our PG. So we thought... hmmm... Let's check it out! So, after we ate dinner, we went back to the place we are staying and changed clothes and went to the wedding. It was the biggest wedding I've seen in my life!! It was HUGE!!!! In the pic above you can sort-of see how huge it was just inside one of the tents! They had many different stations on the outside area... they had henna stations, magician stations for the kids, and even a hukka counter... hahaha There was sooooo much food! They had food lining the parimeter of the entire tent! Food from almost every part of the country!! It was crazy!! They had some great decorations for the food!! It was awesome! Look at all these carved watermellons below: They even had people servi...

Today we had some more meetings and did some fun stuff all around town :) Adam and I did get a chance to go to our favorite tea shop here... it's called InfiniTea ;) I got this really funny tea! It had a flower of tea in the cup, and you pour hot water over it... it was cool! (Although it looked like I was drinking a sea urchin :) This is Adam and our friend Tony, having fun in the "dollar store" (everything there costs about $2.50 :) Those masks are great :) Tell me this isn't the coolest wheelchair you've every seen!!! It's made out of a plastic lawn chair thing :) Cool hunh??

hey! Here's some pics from yesterday :) We were looking for a UPG here and stumbled onto a crazy Sunday Market! There were TONS of people there! It was awesome! There were cars, rickshaws and people everywhere! We went on the back side of this market and found this crazy fruit area where they stored all the fruit that they were on the streets selling. It was so crazy! There was rotten fruit all over the street and the cows were having a hay-day :) We have never seen so many bananas in our lives! There were bananas EVERYWHERE!! And of course, there were some cute kids!!

hey!! Right now we're in the south - it is like being in a totally different country! We're doing some research and really having a good time. This area really reminds me of Samoa in some ways. Adam was excited because there are palm trees with coconuts here :) This is a pic from a big shopping area we were at yesterday And, as always, there are some cute kids ready to have their pictures made :) More to come...