the dancing fools go posh...

(the first photo is the living room of my flat! Been meaning to put that up for awhile...) So I know we're a bunch of dirty hippie backpackers, one with a mountain man of a beard(contrary to popular belief, that's not me...), but we dancing fools can clean up pretty nicely if I do say so for myself! Jake just took off on a train to Varanasi, after we spent the past week running errands, starting work (in my case at least), going to crazy posh night clubs, and completely indulging in a 2 day long addiction to the show Heroes, in which we watched one whole season straight (hey, you don't get too many chances to veg out when you travel, so we took the vegging to the extreme). We also found ourselves at a fancy club in South Delhi on ex-pat ladies night (basically foreign women get in for free and drink good drinks for free all night. I love it for it's utter ridiculousness. Of course it's not too bad having free drinks either!). Last night we went to an amazing salsa club where we danced our little hearts out (quite possibly knocking over a few bystanders in the process, but hey, it's okay). We also found some fun tricks we can play with our american accents (my attempt to ask some folks standing near by if we could have 'some hookah' turned into free shots of sambuca!!), and we ended up hitching a ride with one of the owners of F-Bar, or Fashion-Bar, the fanciest club in Delhi (it costs 75 US Dollars to just get into the place). He asked if we wanted to see it, and of course we did, so we skipped around the fancy nightclub, and danced on the amazing empty dance floor for awhile. All in all, it's been incredible to meet so many new people, indian and traveller alike, and to have a place to settle if just for a little bit, to get to know people a little better..

Now the nightlife is great and fine, but what I'm really excited about is the work that I'm doing here. I officially started work with Family Vision on monday. My first day, my boss Rohit sat me down and told me all about the work the Family has done in Tihar prison since 1993. What I'm going to do is write up a report detailing this work for them. I'll probably do the same thing with their Tsnuami effort, and I'll also be organzing a craft fair for crime-affected foster kids, and finally I'll go to the prison and visit with the women and children a few times. Learning about Tihar Prison makes me really appreciate and really despise different aspects of our criminal justice system back home. It's so different over here, both good and bad... I think when I learn a bit more, I'll write more on this topic, but it's just drawing me in- there's a possibility I may even want to apply to law school in the future.. what!? We'll see... But anways, the work is incredibly fulfilling, and I know that I'm helping out this organization a lot, which is great.

Okay, off to work-- peace!!