Blog Entry #8: If you ever come to India, be prepared to have every one of your seneses assaulted. India is perhaps the most complicated place on earth. People who visit either love it or hate it. I tend to fall into the later category. Don’t get me wrong, the people are amazing and the culture really can’t be beat. But there are so many complexities wrapped into this country that it sends my senses into overload. This is my third visit to Chennai. Nothing much has changed. It is still the complicated place that it always has been. On the first night here, I spent a lovely evening attending a local University Welcome Reception for some of our students. They demonstrated south Indian dances, applied henna tatoos to the women, and presented us with an array of food. I am not a big fan of Indian food at all, and in fact I was going to skip what they offered. But something inside of me encouraged me to try it. I did, and it was really good. All vegetarian and not spicey at all. I’m ready however to move on to our next port in Viet Nam….signing off for now. Photos: Top: Chenai Tidel Park; Bottom right: Ho Chi Minh City Peoples Committee Bldg
