Rain, Rain....Come Back!!!!

It rained today at exactly 10:48. I was out running errands and had just come out of the phone store in the heart of the Jaipur city. Everything was bustling around me and the drops began to fall. I decided to enjoy it, as I had been yearning for it since I arrived and it is so rare here in the desert state of Rajasthan. I sat outside the store and looked up, hoping for more to come, but it stayed a drizzle. My clothes began to get soaked, and I loved it. It was the amount that would have sent me running for cover back home in the states, but I sat by myself on the stoop, absorbing not only the rain from above, but the stares of passerbys, as some foreigner looking foolish sitting in the rain with a huge grin on my face.

I continued with my errands after the rain stopped only ten minutes later, and my clothes were immediately dried by the humid air. I returned to some of the places we frequented here last time. We used to study for Hindi all the time at Anokhi Cafe, and I decided to go back there and visit the book shop for some reading to take to the farm. It was an interesting feeling; I was excited to go back there, but it was simply not the same without the group. I've got to stop going back to all these places. There is no way I can recreate, alone, the times I had with the group. I'm glad this is the only “repeat city” I am going to alone. Everything else will be new except Varanasi, but that will be with Jori towards the end of my trip.

I'm trying to update this as much as possible now, even though I am doing nothing exciting, because I am not sure how often I will be able to come Wednesday. Also, sorry for any typos or errors, the internet is verrrryyy slow and sometimes does not let me use the backspace button....