Well, hello. If you are reading this, you've made it to my "blog". I've decided to name it "Vellaikkaari" which means "white girl" in Tamil. I figure since this is my identity now I might as well embrace it. I've made it safely to Chennai in one piece. I'm staying at the Hotel Pandian, a very austere place with really friendly staff who remember me as the Madurai girl and only speak Tamil to me.
It's 2:30 AM and I'm not sleeping. I opened my laptop to discover that I CAN GET WI-FI IN THIS DUMP!!!? Seems that a lot has changed in 2 years around this place. I'm totally tripping right now. On top of it all, I'm watching TV -- some sort of Harrison Ford movie. Looks like I am definitely easing myself into it over here! HA! I'm not complaining. I've taken some pictures of the room, just to be more of a total nerd.
I'm feeling OK right now considering how hard it was to leave Philadelphia. I've never been more in denial of a trip in my life. I couldn't believe what I was doing. I considered aborting the mission and running away from the gate in Philadelphia but I thought better of it. It was about a 45 minute drive to this hotel from the Chennai airport. As I was looking out the window of the taxi it sort of felt like I was experiencing this place for the first time. There's always some degree of shock involved when you quite literally drop out of the sky and into this place.
I'm still in denial but am at least looking forward to a masala dosa in the morning.
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