Arjun's India and China Adventures June 21st

This is the village of Affour. This is daddy with Mausi, his aunt, talking in the front room while Mausi massages Guriya Phua’s new baby.

This is me and Hemu bhaiya fighting.

We went to visit relatives in another village. This is me and Hemmu Bhaiya and Vinod Bhaiya sitting outside under a tree at my daddy’s uncle’s village house.

That is me in front of a hut used for grain storage.

Bhutti chacha doing an Indian pose.

That is me pulling up water from a 50 foot well near my daddy’s old house in the village. I pulled up the 50 foot rope bucket in about 30 seconds with full water in it. There’s a video, but it takes too long to upload.

This is me at the house next to daddy’s old house with the relatives and friends who live there. This is Parmila phua. She put alta, a red dye, on mommy’s feet for decoration. That means that you’re married. And then I wanted some on me. So when we got back to the other village house, me and Hemmu bhaiya went on a walk, and a group of people making chipari/gotal made of dried cow poop which they use for fuel to burn a fire to make food. They thought I was married because of the alta on my feet.

 

This is me and my cousins in the house next to my dad’s house sucking caramel pops we brought.

That is my family's ancestral land. It’s going to be my land. This is me saying that it’s my land even though it’s not a video.

This is me and the friends at mama’s house. We played tag. All of them chased me for every single match. We had a leaf fight. There was a big leaf tree, and we just pulled leaves off of it, there were tiny leaves, and we just pulled them off until they came off the stick and we threw them at each other.

 

This is mommy with the new brides of my daddy's uncle's house. They can't leave the house, and have to wear their veils.

 

The next morning in Affour, we went to the “boring” well. This is mommy and Aditi, walking on the road to the “boring” well.

That is a cow and me and Hemmu bhaiya with Tuk-Tuk known as Simran in the family, standing in the front.

That is the “boring” well which is a generator which pumps up huge, thick water to irrigate the fields. This is me trying to get used to the cold water to take a bath. It’s a mud bath cause there are all sticks and rocks and stuff. It’s a mud pit, and they fill it with water for the bath.

This is a picture of all of us all of us children in the village watching Cartoon Network in the village when the electricity is working.

This is a rug seller who carried all of these rugs on his head to the village house.

This is manu chacha's new baby in Patna.

This is an ant carrying a bindi next to Manu cha-cha’s house back in Patna.

This is manu cha cha me and mommy at his store in Patna. After this we left on the overnight train to Delhi.