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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