days 3 and 4

Well Monday when I was walking back to my hotel after the internet cafe I saw my first accident. A motorcycle hit another head on and then a pedestrian. I was wondering when I would see my first accident. I woke up in the middle of the night 2 nights ago with a bunch of little blisters on my face that popped when I scratched them. Of course me being the paranoid type, I worried that they may be from some bug that laid eggs in my face. Actually that probably wouldn't be too unlikely but its probably not the case. I still have them today...they are more bumps now than blisters. I think if they don't go away in a few days I will go to the doctor. Yesterday and today we went to another school camp. The kids are so loud. The boys are all troublemakers! I have some very cool pictures but I have no way to post them now because I can't get them off my camera. Thaanraj gave us local cell phones yesterday. We get spam texts all the time. One of the girls got one advertising delivery from McDonalds.

Men hold hands here when they walk down the street. Apparently it just signifies that they are friends. I saw one man holding anothers pinky yesterday. I have only seen one man and woman couple holding hands though. Chennai is pretty traditional in many senses.

Last night we went to the Skywalk mall and saw a movie in the nicest theater I have ever been in. We saw a movie in Tamil called Madharasa Pattinam and it actually wasn't bad. Of course it was a love story. The theater was very roomy with reclining chairs and a lot of leg room. The sound was phenominal! The only problem was that they keep the ac on like 60 degrees! I was freezing and of course bollywood movies are so long! Ours was 3 hours and had an intermission.

I have been eating a lot of delicious food here. There is a really nice restaurant here called Saravana Bhavan. The first day for dinner I had aloo gobi masala which is potato and cauliflower with yellow gravy. They call many curries here gravy. The second day for lunch I had dal butter fry which is fried onion, tomato, and yellow dal. They were both very good. We also tried the restaurant under our hotel two nights ago. It seemed pretty shady but nobody got sick so its all good I guess. Yesterday for lunch we tried this Hot Chips restuarant where I tried what Depak recommended to me: dosa. I had dosa with a little twist. It was called masala dosa and it was a fried tortilla thing with a potato mixture inside. It was pretty good but I don't know that I would get it again. I also had an apple juice which is just an apple crushed into a cup. It was thick and very tasty. Today I had the meal they eat most often here in southern India for lunch. When you order it you just say you want a meal and they bring you out a big platter with about 12 little curries and sauces as well as some rice. You eat it with your hands (only your right one actually) so it is very messy. I had a watermelon juice today. So so good.

I have been having strange dreams from the malarone but no hallucinations or psychotic episodes yet thankfully!
I will definitely post pictures as soon as I can but I don't think it will be any sooner than the 20th.