If everything checks out, we're heading to the hills (i.e. himalayas) on tuesday morning. the bike is a 2004 Enfield Thunderbird 350cc, large, well endowed, solid. we're renting for two months, and we got a damn good deal. 150 rupees per day, is a litte less than $4per day, or $120/month. thats not too much more than what my cell phone costs in new york, which i just remembered i need to disconnect. so im in new delhi now. I'm sitting in an internet cafe, though a cafe is a bit of an overstatement, as this is really a small stuffy room with a single dangling fan and three pre-1992 computers which makes them quite ancient, really. but everything is working fine, obviously i am writing my first blog from India on this computer so it must be. The time is 9am, and Michal is still sleeping. I myself am having trouble sleeping past 8am as it starts getting increasingly hot and plus im just so damned excited to be here that i just have to wake up.

did i mention? I'm in new delhi, and also the caps key barely works so excuse the small case lettering. this is a part of town in Old delhi called the Main bazaar, and it certainly is bazaar, i mean...bizarre. get it? anyways this is not the most destitute place ive seen in my life, some slums in brazil are worse for sure, but its definitely the strangest, most surreal place ive been to. in all my travels, and ive been to quite a few places, ive never been so shocked by the difference in culture, attitude, behavior and lifestyle. this is truly a very different world from the one i live in, and its not just the cows roaming in the streets, either. It's not just the fact that milk is sipphoned off into metal containers brought from home from a very large jerry can riggamajig thingy. and its not just the honky tonk horn blaring human-car-motorcycle-bicycle-old lady bumper car thing going on right outside this store. It's also a lot of other things, lots and lots of other things.

Suffice it to say, this trip is sure to change my perspective on pretty much everything. So im glad im here, couldnt have made a better decision.

Oh and one thing thats going to make this the best trip of my life, is not just the fact that im travelling with Michal, who is an amazing person, but also the fact that im going to be travelling with her on a MOTORCYcLe!! thats right...we rented a bike yesterday, and today im giving it a test run. If everything checks out, we're heading to the hills (i.e. himalayas) on tuesday morning. the bike is a 2004 Enfield Thunderbird 350cc, large, well endowed, solid. we're renting for two months, and we got a damn good deal. 150 rupees per day, is a litte less than $4per day, or $120/month. thats not too much more than what my cell phone costs in new york, which i just remembered i need to disconnect. the gas mileage is really great 40kilometers/liter. drove her back through the city to the main bazaar yesterday from the main motorcycle area Karol Bahd and wow, driving here is an advenutre for sure. i also test rode two other bikes yesterday, another 2003 thunderbird, and also a brand spanking new 2008 model, with electric start. the bike i took felt the best, and honestly i like the kick start, it makes me feel like i live in the 70's.

So i just had the grossest eggs for breakfast i ever ate. the yolk was off-white for some reason. I only ate a few bites. luckily the whole combo, eggs and toast and coffee, cost about 40 rupees, or $1, including tip, so i didnt feel too bad about leaving it.

Oh and also some good news is I heard back from Ben Gurion and I got in to the Honors MBA program which was a pleasant surprise. Honestly i thought my chances were slim, so i was pretty happy when i read the letter. It took one week for the decision to be made. I wanted to celebrate, but where we live here its not exactly the going out type scene, unless you're interested in eating fried potatos and drinking sketchy pepsi with a bunch of 14 yr old boys who look 20. People here age much faster, probably the sun and heat, and the 27 hour work days. And its hard to get a beer, but i managed somehow. I had to pay a little extra, specifically one dollar, but I felt the celebration wouldnt be proper without a toast.

The whole blog window is not in english, i guess some kindof computer driver problem, so im just gonna hit a button and hope it sends. ill write more later, now i need to go to the bathroom, probably related to those eggs i was talking about...