Weekend Endeavors

It's MONDAY- welcome back to school Humboldt and other various university students! 

We're starting our second week here in Mysore and it has been pretty mellow here after a busy weekend.

On Saturday we visited the Bandipur Wild Life Sanctuary which is known for it's tigers, no tigers were seen, but various primates were spotted (humans included)!

Mama and baby

Joseph kicking it with some Tamil school children.

Common Langur

          On Sunday we took an adventure in an auto rickshaw. These are the three wheeled taxis of India with virtually no doors which allows the rider to became very well acquainted with the surrounding traffic. The main three automobiles of choice in India are auto rickshaws, motorbikes, and buses which at some point drive straight towards you just to swerve at the last second. We have a theory that it's illegal not to tailgate You'd think with all of the crazy driving that I would vow to never ride a motorcycle, but there have been so many women holding babies side saddle that it has given me more confidence to at least try it.


Traveling into Mysore takes about 20 minutes and we were dropped off in the KR Circle, which I imagined to be like the convenience store but turned out to be a ginormous round about. We heard about a few festivals going on, but didn't end up making it. We followed a man for about half an hour who told us he knew where the "festival" was, but instead lead us to perfume shop. Hey, at least we smelled good with some free samples.


 The event of the day was the Mega More Store.  It was a bit hard to find our way because the man we asked assumed we said Mysore instead of More Store- understandable, but still unhelpful. Once we found someone who understood our American accents he pointed us in the right direction. The More Store in Hebbal (the local town) takes up a space that size of a large living room. The Mega More Store in Mysore was a mega More Store. It has about 4 floors with everything you could possibly need [except bagels :( there's even cream cheese, which is such a tease].


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Music classes start this week! At least they aren't at 6am.


Enjoy the rest of August no matter what is thrown your way,
Vandanegalu!