A new pair of eyes..

Well, I just came back from Chennai.
My plane touched down on home soil at about 5.25pm local time. The feeling of getting back home has never been so liberating before.
Though I spent less than five days there, I have had the opportunity to see so many things that makes me proud of my motherland.

For the record, no, I am not the type of person who goes to another country and start comparing and complaining about the differences. I bathe and shower in cold water for most of my life and my homes has never had a water heater installed. In fact I live by the principle think globally and act locally.

One thing hard about being in Chennai was trying to be local. The only way was being able to speak the language. So I asked the Indian people in the group how to say no in tamil.
Elijah told me to say "venna".

So it works, whenever I said the word, the other locals would actually hear and tell the people that would stalk us to back off. However, it was pretty sad cos I actually researched on the word and "venna" in Chennai Tamil means useless person. I have said the word to so many people and some were not really useless, the were just in poverty and they were really old. So why the locals had asked them to back off was to save their own face. I feel so bad right now.

Lesson learned, always be prepared for the language barrier and to bear in mind the localised usage of the words. Anyway a trip will not be complete without pics. So I hope I will have the time to upload them or to at least tag myself on fb. According to isaac and andrew, we have thousands of pictures from the trip!
So be patient!
Lots of love,
Soon to be globe trekker,
Afikko.

nalliravu