Semester at Sea and the Rotary sponsored an inter-port student (named Ambika) to travel on the ship from Mauritius to India. I met her on the ship and she offered to host me at her house for one night after my home stay. Her house was 10 minutes away from my host family; another SAS student joined me at her house that night.
We went out to dinner with her dad and brother at a club where they pay membership dues. Her brother was involved with a lot of theatre and talked to us a lot about his experiences.. That night the three of us stayed up and talked as if I was just at a normal sleepover at home.
The next day Ambik brought us to different shops including a bangle shop that had rows and rows of bracelets. Unfortunately, none of them would fit over my hand!
There were different bracelets for northern Indian, northern Indian weddings, southern Indian, and modern bangles to wear with jeans. The variety was insane.
For lunch we went to a restaurant where we ate off of a huge banana leaf using our hands. We then took a car to the airport to head back to the boat. We met up some other SAS girls who had been in Delhi and they sat with someone from the city that offered to give us a ride. After being away from the ship so long, it felt good to return home!
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