  We began our trip with 10 people in India, then two of us left and one of us joined and now two of us will be returning to the United States. Elana and Elizabeth, India will surely miss you (I mean that is two less foreigners to take pictures of, right? haha! just kidding ;) ) and we will miss you too. This post, more than a post to count how many of us Bulldogs are still hear was to recap kind of what we've been up to on the weekends and for me to try to make up for not writing in a long time.
Our first weekend in Punjab, we went to Chandigarh to go visit Elana and Elizabeth with hopes of going to Shimla as well. Shimla was a no go that weekend but we did get a tour of Chandigarh from the incredibly patient and kind Nikhil (one of Elena's cousins). We got a little taste of what night life for some young people is like in that city. It was a really good time. We even went to a club called Blue Ice. To keep this brief, it was a fun time, though I might of rethought dancing in my seat...It was an exciting &nbsp;night of damsels and heroes and villains and happy endings :) The next day there, instead of going to Shimla, we went to Kausauli (yeah, I don't know how to spell the name of the place.
Some one, please correct me). It was a fun time. It was nice to "be back in nature". We took a short nature walk, walked a long time to someone's relative's house while some of us got lost and walked a long time into another village, regrouped, ate lunch, headed back to Chandigarh, got separated again, lost from each other, finally made it to Chandigarh, enjoyed the rock garden, and those of us living in Ludhiana headed back there.
It was quite a weekend. I may be forgetting a weekend, but we also went to Dharamashala, stayed at the Hotel Tibet, unsuccessfully tried to get an interview with the Dalai Lama with our newly acquired celebrity status&nbsp;(hooray for Indian newspaper coverage! ), and enjoyed peacefulness, waterfall, more nature, different looking faces,&nbsp;nice&nbsp;Tibetan cuisine, random encounter with other Yalies&nbsp;and cooler weather. Another weekend we visited Amritstar and visited a Golden Temple. It was definitely an experience. The notion of equality&nbsp; for everyone was even evident in the prasad (spelling?&nbsp;darn it! I&nbsp;think&nbsp;I must have failed spelling in first grade or something)&nbsp;offerings. People offer any amount of money for some holy sweet and you get larger amounts depending on how much you pay but in the end, all the prasad goes back to the same place and before entering the Golden Temple, everyone gets the same amount of prasad, regardless of how much you originally came. It was&nbsp; a cool experience. And finally this weekend, as if we hadn't gotten enough hills, we all headed back to some!
Krishan, Lindsay and Elizabeth (med student not undergrad) left on Thursday to Kullu Manali and will be coming back today, Monday. Elena, Aditi, Crissaris, Elana, Elizabeth, Nikhil, and Verrone (really sorry, I don't know how to spell his name! ) went up to Shimla! We finally reached our first weekend's hoped destination.
It was a really good time.
It was great to see Elana and Elizabeth again before they left for the US. We trekked to the tallest point in Shimla.
Very cool. Good exercise and a nice time to catch up on experiences in Changdigarh and Ludhiana. Some of us had a more difficult time than others getting up there, but&nbsp; I won't mention any names. At the top we enjoyed a nice view of Shimla and sat and relaxed for a while. There I met a French tourist whose name I now regretfully forget. He had been in India for 5 days and will be here for 6 weeks. He's a biology&nbsp;professor&nbsp;at some University in the north of France (again, i forget the name...
I guess the road pollution I inhale everyday is killing some brain cells). He teaches physiology of exercise. I'm sure you all wanted to know all that :) Anywho, we had an adventure coming down this highest spot. It was a bad day for Verone. He fell a few times and got a rash from some poisonous plant. Ouch! But we finally made it and relaxed a while. Then we ate dinner and then went to a place with really cool green and white couches.&nbsp; It was a pleasant and familial atmospheres where young and old alike enjoyed there time.
Right in the next room was a club-like place with some dancing music. Some of us thought we'd check it out and when we went in found only two people dancing and a few sitting down. That was kind of sad but I couldn't help but stand up and dance. After a couple more songs I didn't like, we got the DJ to change the music and that changed everything.
After a short while, the house was moving. Everyone, little kids and uncle jis alike, was on the dance floor shaking what their mama gave them. It was so much fun! Not only did we get the party started but it made my day to be dancing around to hip hop/bhangra remixes with some cool guys and girls for a while. The next day, after going to Kufri in search for some more nature, then eating lunch, we headed back to Chandigarh where we said our goodbyes to Elana and Elizabeth and then got back to Ludhiana. Writing again soon. Bye! 
