For my 2010 Christmas, my new host family took me to Chennai! It was such a great experience.. though we didn't really celebrate Christmas. We were with all their family the whole time though, because the host Uncle's niece was pregnant. The second day we were in Chennai, there was a bangle ceremony for her. What exactly a bangle ceremony consists of is the entire family from the girl's side comes to their house to offer blessings, listen to some mantras and a story about baby Krishna, meet family, and eat food. At the end all the women of the family put a few bangles on the lady because it is said that the clinking sound is soothing for the baby.
On Christmas day they took me to another mall (shopping was our only activity in Chennai), where we were lucky enough to find an ice skating rink! I got so excited, so my little host bro and I strapped up our skates to putz around on what turned out to be plastic. But still, fake ice and skates with hardly any edge was better than nothing. And to satisfy the after-skate hunger, we ventured into Mickey D's. That first taste of the chocolate fudge sundae was indescribably satisfying.
No comments:
Post a Comment