Thursday, December 31, 2009

Our first day in Calicut!

Today we woke up on the train and Nicole had us go to the back of the train car and there we had some fun looking out of the train door at the beautiful scenery and taking pictures. It was a beautiful site to see! Then after the 11 hour train ride we met out contact Mahadev and went to our hotel. We love it! It is very beautiful and it's right by the beach and a big bazaar. We changed our clothes and went to the press conference this morning. It went well! =) We will be on the Indian news tonight and in all the papers here in the mornig. We are excited to get copies and see what they wrote about us!
After that we grabbed lunch and headed out to explore the area...we went to the bazaar. It was a very large market and we were unable to finish walking through it today...we will go back later. Cj found a Mundu (man skirt) and is already wearing it. The rest of us found a few things and Stephaine bought a Sari (a type of woman's dress in india) and plans to wear it. In that shop the girls had some fun! We were able to try different ones on and taking pictures with some of the ladies who worked in the shop.
We are so glad to finally be in Calicut!
~Nicole, Cj, Becca, Stacy, Albert, and Stephanie

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