Bournemouth - Day 5

Traveling half the world across, 9.30 pm sunsets, flat mates from all over India, alien food and getting into learning mode, sure has taken a toll on me. After 4 days of this unusual routine we get our first day off. Thank God for that! Relaxation and Sleep the agenda! What pleasure it is to sleep and know that you don’t have anything else to do.

10 am and still sleeping only to be jostled awake by Deb, singing a Hindi patriotic song. Realizing it wasn’t 15th of August as yet; an investigation was in order since we were right in the middle of English Land. Anyways, the inspiration behind the song was unsurprisingly a young white female right in the middle of our bathroom. Before your mind takes off let me tell you she was just one of the cleaning ladies. I don’t blame Deb for reacting in the way he did – to quote him - 'Pehli baar dekha hun kissi angrez ko bathroom saaf karte hue aur woh bhi Indian logon ka, maaza aa gaya.”

A white female in House no. 29 raised many an eyebrow and who would want to miss such an opportunity? For eg, Jags; our so called Sarpanch used all his talent to woo her by posing personal questions eventually to find out that she was a Columbian and lived with her brother in Bournemouth. Deb wasn’t far behind and turned out to quite a strong competitor. He jumped off his bed as soon as he heard Columbia and shouted "Shakiraaaaaaaaa!" and went on to tell the white lady how popular shakira is in India – The invasion of Deb irritated Jags who tried his best to off track the slim and trim Deb. Seeing the guys and their wooing antics - a senior cleaning lady interrupted and politely sent the Columbian on her way and took up the reins of cleaning our house. Disappointed but not outdone - Deb and Jags volleyed questions for her to tackle - Where can we club, pub and some bars which we could visit despite the fact that none of these guys booze.

Our main chef tam brahm- Veer was busy in his drinks and the newspaper collecting details about how to drive to Southampton as most of the Chevening scholars had to go for a shoot which we couldn’t manage to do on Wednesday. One of our female journalist friends Deepa was down with cold but seemed to have got back in shape, Neha has caught a cold and Deb too has been feeling down and has decided to skip dinner. Today at the boy’s house, cabbage potato curry, chapattis and curd rice was on the menu.

Well, Most of today went in shopping and hopping. A dull day apart from the funny incident that took place with the cleaning lady in the morning. Hope the next few days we have a gala time. Until next time then!