Return ticket to hell...

I hated Delhi when i first arrived and did not really plan on returning until my flight to leave the country. but i had to meet Jo and i also had Josephine's free train ticket to try and use...

so I caught the free shuttle from the temple to the station and went to find my train to hell in a sea of swarming indians. i showed 'my' ticket to heaps of different people and then decided (after getting no where really) to jump aboard the train ( i had found out which it was at least) and wait till it moved to sort it as then i was at least on my way and they'd hardly throw me off right?

i was sitting waiting for a conductor to come when i was approached by an indian/canadian guy who asked if i could do him a favour. his ticket was waiting list only and he was number 115 and so probably wouldn't get a seat. he was wondering if i could put his gear with mine over night for safety reasons.

hahahahha, hahaha, ooooohh, amamamaahahahaha bahahah!

i explained that mine was a waiting ticket too, that is said i was a 24 year old female and that i was number 135 or something. this at least put him in a better mood when he found out i was in a much worse situation and so we spent the remainder of the trip together using his hindi and my white skin to get us through. we found us some floor space to sleep on (after being kicked out of 3 other seats) and so we settled in for a 7hr trip for me and a 30 hr for him!

wasn't too bad a sleep really considering. was in a coridoor between carriages on the floor by a toilet. we put my scarf down and his sleeping bag and huddled up for maybe 5 or 6 hours of sleep so it was fine. and for me it was a free train ride so what did i care how it went?

so on the 26th i caught a FREE taxi to the temple. then i booked in to my FREE room to stay for three FREE nights. I had FREE breakfast, FREE lunch, FREE dinner each day and visited the numerous FREE sights. i got a FREE ticket to delhi, a FREE tea on the train and i don't know, probably some other FREE stuff too along the way. all in all i have spent the last month in India spending aorund 10 000 rupees ($350) of my planned 15 000 Rupees ($500). considering that more than half of that was for the meditation course, not too shabby i think.