Thursday, January 1, 2015

Life is 2 Good – 12/21/14


                A little while ago, Connor Johnson (a BYPer in Brazil) posted a picture of a coconut on the beach with the caption “Life is good” on Facebook. In retaliation, Chase and Stephen ran outside our program house to the piles of trash at the corner and took pictures to post as passive-aggressive comments on the picture. This sort of stemmed a light-hearted rant session on the generally disgusting state of Banaras with fecal matter every half foot and piles of trash that are sometimes burned to create plumes of noxious smoke in the streets. Hearing our complaints, Caleb decided that a beach day was long overdue.

The bank of the Ganges River opposite of the city is basically this giant, sandy flood plane for the monsoon season. We took a boat across the river (the dhobi’s dog, Jenny, following us all the way from the dhobi and onto the boat with us) with tons of sports and picnicking equipment, ready to spend a day out in the sun and sand. Girls from the hostel at Little Stars School came, along with Deep (my host brother), Shiv and Anandi (Dolly-ji’s kids), and several other kids who were host siblings/friends of other group members. We played Frisbee, wiffle ball, soccer, kabaddi, cricket, and football and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with bananas and oranges. To top off the day, we got coconuts and carved holes into them to have fresh coconut water and then broke them open to have fresh coconut meat. The icing on the cake was posting a picture online of two coconuts in the sand with the caption “Life is 2 good” for all to see.

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