Team chipatti!

Day three (29th):

So this is my third day at the Golden temple and though I still think you could do it in one, it has been worth it to stay the extra two. I thought today i would have little to do but i have had a full day so far with more still to come.

this morning we went to wash some dishes again and ended up making chipattis!

seems guys can do this too. i was rolling them, frying them, sorting them (we moved around a lot for fun). the Sikhs love us for helping too. i got a 5 minute back rub from one guy just for offering to help!

we made 'team chipatti' (me, dutch couple, and a brazillian guy - aussie girl kept washing dishes) and could whip out maybe a couple of hundred an hour. there is also a machine that makes them at around 10 000 an hour but you really can taste the difference and it is much nicer when you get served the hand-made ones.

they also gave us extra tea, took us up on the roofs, back stage and all these other special treats. they are really friendly here and all want to talk with us.

and the rest of the day has been spent talking with people (foreigners). there's a brazillian here who is biking the world for 3 yrs and a lovely dutch couple (yes, i will go stay with them) and heaps of Israelis, an irish guy, the german left yesterday and the aussie and american girls left today, but more keep coming.

- i ended up spending the afternoon into the evening chucking peas (is that what it's called when you remove them from the pods?) and handing out dishes for dinner. two more jobs i had yet to try. i then took an indian guy for a tour of the temple after he asked me for some help and then had dinner, some chai, packed my bags and headed for the train.

but now it is time for some lunch i think. then tonight i go by train to Delhi, on to Agra to see the Taj thingy for a day and then back to Delhi and on to Nepal.

an american girl i met gave me the train tickets she bought to Delhi that she is no longer using and though they say they are for a female i will give it a go. worst comes to worse, i spend a day at the station.