pollution?? what pollution?? cough, cough..

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wow am i ever stuffed up!! attack of the allergies!! so i'm totally sufferin from a sore throat, watery eyes, and nose that doesn't ever stop runnin. i'm such a beautiful sight! i'm takin what ever pills i can but they don't seem to help but just make me a bit drugged up, and not the good way 😉 well, atleast now i know i'm allergic to severe pollution haha

yesterday we waled around tryin to make it to the gate of india to board a boat to go to elephant island, but ended up in a slum. it was pretty cool though, but we definitely stuck out, way out! there was a street market in the slum and tonns of ppl and trash everywhere. no one bothered us but alot of kida would yell "hello, hello!" it was really cute. ppl lived pretty much on top of eachother and the pverty was very apparent but everyone had a smile on their face. ohhhh and the smell in some areas....... wheeeewwwww...... i hadda do some self talk to convince myself it wasn't so bad.

we finally made it to the gate of india and was approched by a holy man that blessed us and gave us our third eye, some sugar beads, a flower, mumbled some stuff, and then asked for 100 rupees. we had no choice but i gladly paid cause it was kinda cool. so we jumped on the boat (2 hr ride) to the island and made friends instantly with everyone around us. there was a indian familiy from new zealand, an ozzy couple, and a columbian girl that we ended up hangin with the whole time on the island. it was really cool, the caves date back as far as 500-700 AD(rounded figure) and had amazin carvings of hindu gods n such. a monkey attacked one of our group members and stole his bag. everyone in our group was scared of the monkeys, but i was like "hell no! u ain't stealin nothin from us!!" and i attacked the monkey! haha i got back hi s bag which was only water, but hey, water is very important! haha so i became the protector

on the way back from the island we ended up goin with the coumbian girl named maria for a ride in the car that she was bein chauferd around in, nice huh? but ended up way deep in northern mumbai and very far from where we were stayin. we got dropped off eventually at the train staion to make it back hom the quikest. the train is a trip!! we bought our tickets for first class and hopped on. the carts are separated men go in one and women in the other, so bye bye donny. the door to the carts are always open and ppl jump on and off while it's coming to a stop at the stations. it's a total mad rush to get on cause they only stop for 30 sec. or so and then head off. so ppl run and jump and try to squeez on haning onto whatever they can. supposedly 8-15 ppl die everyday on it from electrocution (from ridin on the top cause there was no room in the cars), to being squished, fallin off, or gettin hit, cazy ehhh!!! but could totally see how it could happen. just in the mornin hours millions of indian jump on the train, it's definitely and experiance!

today we're gonna get lost for a while and also go see the dobbi ghats which is a huge area where every ones laundry gets washed by hand, it should be amazin! today is a holy muslim holiday too, so alot of things are closed and everyone is sacrificing goats, so i'm sure we'll see somethin interestin.

tonite we're meetin up with a local guy here and were gonna party!!! we're stayin at his place tonite and then headin out tomorrow mornin to go north. so i'll hit u all up later

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