India (Or at least an Indian airport)

Well I was wrong it was more like 9 hours to Amsterdam and then something like 8 to Bombay. So my mom and I have been waiting in the Bombay domestic airport since 11:30 pm on Dec. 29. It is currently 4:45 am or at least close to that time. Our plane leaves in an hour. I'm not sure how long that flight is, I believe it will be at least three hours. Ah well. My body has no sense of time or anything. Between not having a watch, (I forgot to bring one) and being thrown from one time zone to another, I'm thoroughly confused.The energy in India is amazing. We took a cab from the international airport to the domestic. I saw such a mix of cultures. Western advertisements right next to terrible poverty. It's so wild. It's hard to grasp. I feel like a camera that has been overexposed. A lot of my memories are all melded together. My mom and I are waiting in the lobby for our plane. There are tons of people here. Mostly Indian, but other foreigners too.

An interesting thing that I've noticed is the nearly continual presence of armed guards. Soldiers really. They carry large guns that are highly visible. I can only imagine that it is in response to the Bombay attacks. Yet, the security is nothing like American airports. It is pretty casual feeling.

There is so much noise all the time. For the last 20 or so minutes these airport workers have been trying to fit this large escalator type machine through this very narrow entry way. The machine is constantly beeping and every so often there is a bang as it hits something. This wouldn't happen in America. They would give up or do something else. Another thing. All the noise is meaningless, at least to me. Different languages all blend together into back ground noise.

Update on the workers. They are removing part of the handrail to make the machine fit.

Well, no more for now. We're still waiting for our flight. We don't know which gate it will leave from as that kind of thing isn't decided until the last minute. So far I love the Indian feeling.

Oh and one last update. As of right now we can't get on the Internet. Our computer is somehow messed up. So, if you are reading this you know that we somehow managed to make it work.