Oh my God! An ACTUAL Blog Update

OK, so I just realized that my last actual blog update was before Christmas, so I decided to have pity on you guys and do another one. (I'd give you pictures, but the @!#% computer is being a bum, and unless I want to spend 36:54:12 amount of time waiting for the stupid pictures to process, you're not going to get any.)

I think that since so much has happened since I last wrote, I'll just give you a little summary of some of my friends (in the comfort that haven't told any of them about this blog ;P)

Friend #1 - BooYeon (aka Chicken Soup, aka Wednes, aka Pabo, aka Krazy Korean, aka Kenyan)

BooYeon is my room-mate, she doesn't speak very good English, and she's nutters. I think that's why we get along so well, because with her level of English and my level of Korean (I can officially call you crazy, stupid, and delicious in Korean. I can also say "I'm so clever" and "Don't speak Korean!") we can hardly have deep philosophical discussions.

She actually acts like an anime character (in fact, exactly like the one at the beginning of the update. If you don't recognize this character, just thank your lucky stars that you're not a nerd like me. Muzzah, ask Stump to explain.). She swings her arms back and forth while she walks, jumps up and down, and goes "Waaaaah!" (crying) if you poke her juuust right. . . >:)

Every day we playfight (in two memorable days we had a banana peel war all over the hostel (the cows ate them up, later) and another day a hairspray war) and bug each other, and I sometimes give her English lessons in exchange for tea.

We're going to Singapore together (because she needs to renew my visa and I need to leave India *cries*) and I'm going to meet her dad. That'll be cool, although she says that he won't like me (Because I'm Canadian. But that's an inside joke, so don't be offended :P) so now I'm nervous. She might be staying long enough for you (Dad and Stump) to meet her. That would be neat, because then the two worlds that I seem to be living in would overlap. . . weeeeird. . .

Friend #2 - David (aka Uncle David, aka Thur, aka Bobbysoxer, aka American)

David is an Indian on the outside and an American on the inside, although he'll deny his Americanness indignantly (and can you blame him?) He was an orphan in India and was adopted before he can remember by an American couple. Since his parents wanted to give him the choice and he's far too liberal to do anything to associate himself with Bush, he never got an American passport. So he's still Indian.

Of course, I call him American just to bug him.

He's my "intellectual friend" although half of the time, we're bugging BooYeon together (we also mess with her mind. For example, we've (OK, I've) taught her words like pug-fugly and biallistic, and the like).

OK, so those are my two best friends over here. I shall proceed to give you mini-summaries of my other friends

Johannes: this guy is skinny (but still muscular) Swarzenegger. For real! You know Arnie's deep grumbly German accent? Johannes talks exactly like that! It's hilarious. I get him to say "I'll be back" on a regular basis because it makes me feel happy inside.

Carmen: she's my Canadian friend. She got sexually assaulted (badly. Every Western girl gets sexually assaulted in India if you stay longer than a week, but hers was really bad. And on her second day here, which is especially horrible) and had a bike crash and injured both wrists in her first week in India. Damn, if I were her, I would have left right away!

Johanna: she's my German friend. She's really nice, but I don't think she's grasped the cultural differences of India quite yet. For example, she was all confused about why this Indian guy-friend of hers was totally getting the wrong idea and asking her to marry him. I asked her if she was doing anything in particular that she was doing that could be confusing him. She said no. It was only later that Carmen told me that she kissed him.

Crazyhead!

Doesn't she know that even eye contact is considered flirting over here. Eye contact of any sort, not just the bat-bat-eyelashes-eye-contact sort. Even the please-get-onto-your-side-of-the-road-you-stupid-truck-driver eye contact is flirtatious. Kissing is basically the same as sayinig "Marry me now, baby!"

Graar. . .

Steve: an Irish dude who's actually gone right now. But he's really fun and once, without me even asking him, he did the Lucky Charms voice. After that, I can die happy.

Krishna: an Indian on the outside, German on the inside girl (kinda like David) who laughs nearly as much/as loudly/as weirdly as moiself. Scary, I know, but true.

Leelee: an American genius. She started university when she was fifteen!!! She's a scientist (at the age of 23) and is going on to study to become a doctor when she goes back to the States. . . I feel unaccomplished. . .

Valentine: a Frenchie, she's the one who cut my hair and while we don't have much in common aside from BooYeon and finding the horns of autorickshaws hilarious , we get along pretty well.

And und so weite (I've learnt some German! That means "and so on and so forth". . .actually, no! I just looked it up on altavista.com/tr and it says it means "and in such a way widens". . . eh???? Weeeeeird. . . )

Anyhoo, and so on and so forth. I have other friends, but I started writing their little summaries and I realized I had nothing of interest/funny to say about them. So you just won't hear about them.

So love ya lots,

Bisous,
Namaste,

Lentil,

The Girl Who Just Cooked a Delicious Lentil Masala When She Woke Up (In a Tank Top and at 11:00 Am!!!! *cackles*)