First Timers in India

• Travel by bus not knowing where it will take me [long story]
• Take a ride from a stranger [I still can’t believe I did that]
• Get lost in a crowded city, thanks to wrong directions by the police
• Go running for about 2-3 km a day
• Sit at a bus stop for an hour waiting for a bus to come
• Buying so many books, that I was nearly broke
• Live on mostly fruits and bread for about 2 months
• Known as the sportiest of the DJs
• Get fever 5 times in 3 months and have constant stomach problems *sigh*
• Identified as a ‘tech freak’
• Have interactions and more which were interesting with non- Sri Lankans :P
• Eat at a restaurant, next door to a brothel =/
• Travel for 12 hours in a bus
• Use an outdoor toilet :P
• See 10 peacocks’ and a fox in a single day
• Visit Bodhgaya and walk the ground that Lord Budda walked on
• See places that I have studied for history and Buddhist Civilisation
• Visit other religious worship places like the Golden Temple-Seikh and a Jain Temple-Sarnath
• Travel for more than 13 hours by train, in a sleeper
• Sleeping for approximately 10 hours in a train :D
• Travel at night in bandit ridden places
• Went in an ambulance
• Have an adopted global family- Mauritius mom, Iraq elder brother, two Nepal elder brothers, Tanzanian elder sister, Sri Lankan elder sister, two Mauritian younger sisters
• Travel a lot in India, covering 4 states in the time being I was there