I woke up excited: INDIA TOMORROW! In my head, I just imagined India being a wonderful yet shocking place. I couldn’t wait to get there, but, at the same time, I was a bit nervous.
Outside of the classroom, the majority of my day was spent preparing for and shooting the Latin Chick music video. In the morning I was collecting costumes, and then we started shooting at 3:30. When we broke for dinner at 6:00, we still had not finished shooting. Cheryll was amazing as the Latin Chick, though. I was confident that she was going to just make the video.
After dinner was cultural pre-port, during which we were issued our sternest warnings yet. “India is a very dangerous place,” they repeated over and over again. “Keep your head on a swivel.” Though the advice is sound, as a result I think I kept my guard up a bit too much. This is something I’ll talk about in the reactions section of my India post.
Once pre-port ended, Tolan and I finished shooting the last bit of footage we needed. By this point it was about 10:00, so I sat down to work on my journal. Unfortunately, I spent so much time working on the SeaTV video that I was not able to get as much done as I would have liked. I had not finished my Vietnam post, only getting through the first three days. When I went to bed, I vowed to have my journal entirely up-to-date by South Africa.
*A note from real time (Monday March 22, 2010): Tomorrow we reach Mauritius. I don’t plan on doing much productive “travel,” there, but I promise to have a fun time on the beach. Hopefully I’ll do some tubing or something. I’ll get my India post up as soon as I can. And like I said, I’ll try my best to be entirely caught up by the time we reach South Africa.
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