Wedding Crashers

Vanakkam (Indian greeting)!

Let me just start off by saying that some of this will probably not be all that interesting for all of you. I'm writing to a rather diverse audience here, from parents to buddies to strangers, so bear with me.

So what's new... Well, we've started school and it's actually rather good. School days consist of some lectures, some seminars, some studying, some volleyball and quite a bit of hammock time. Is nice.

Being the charming fellers that we are, we have of course made loads of friends. I won't bore you all with writing about people you've never met, but it's true.

Things to do with your friends in India:
- chat
- play poker
- laugh at Indians
- be laughed at by Indians
- go on excursions (I'll let the upcoming photos speak about those)
- sing old songs in canon (endlessly)
- feed monkeys (I'll leave this one for Sigurd S and the photos)
- listen to Knutsen og Ludvigsen
- achieve World Peace
- eat out a lot
- go to Indian weddings

This, at last, brings me to the title of this post. As it happens, we've been to two Indian weddings in the last three days. Background: this photographer who took (awful) group photos of our class the other day, keeps inviting some of us to weddings and (upcoming Sunday) cinemas. We're somewhat uncertain about his motivation for doing so, as he does seem to be showing us off a lot (like prime cattle or perhaps rather like circus animals). He's very friendly and I'm sure he means well, though. At any rate, we accept the invitations gladly, as these are superb opportunities to:
a) experience Indian weddings (which is loads of fun)
b) show off our recently purchased Indian fancy-wear (see upcoming photos)
c) get a dinner (good) and a show (loud) for the price of the appropriate gift (about 15 NOK)
d) feel like movie stars, as we are constantly the center of attention, almost stealing the newly-weds' thunder. This is admittedly a bit cool, and of course also extremely embarrassing, for instance when they do a 5-minute photo session of us giving a present to people who've never met us before. We've literally been photographed and videofilmed hundreds and hundreds of times these days, including three sessions in the dude's photo studio.
e) do something you can write about in blog posts lacking substance.

That's about it for now. Photos, by popular request, are coming up.

Sigurd B


"Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what tremendous advantage she has over man"
- Gandhi