Getting Ready for my Brahmin Ceremony! Part 1

In two weeks, on May 28th, we're going to have a big celebration called Janeo. It is where I become a Brahmin, and I have to wear a sacred thread across my chest, and I get my head shaved. It's like a Jewish Bar Mitzvah, except for Brahmins. Over 60 people are coming to the ceremony at a temple. After, we're having a big catered lunch at a restaurant called "Candlelight" near the house, but we can only have vegetarian food cause Brahmins don't eat meat. Relatives are coming to this special ceremony just for me! Victor mama is coming from Hong Kong and Guddu cha-cha is coming from Virginia.

 We need to do a lot of planning and fixing and painting to get everything ready for the ceremony. About 20 people will be staying in our apartment alone! In this picture, we had two people take apart and reassemble the couch and chairs in the living room. It took them the whole day to fix them up.

Then we had the whole house painted. This room used to be green and red, and now it's yellow!

Here's what it used to look like. This is me and Kulu dancing to "Lungi dance" in the living room.

This is the new baby, Ashish watching us dance "Lungi Dance"!

This is the wall mat that we bought from the "mat-wala"

This is Lovely cha chi's brother, Raja's new room color.

This is our new room color. It is tan and orange.

This is us going shopping for sari-s and clothes for the ceremony. We need to buy 14 sari-s to give as presents to some of the female relatives, and suits for some of the men. We picked out over 20 sari-s and then had to pick 14 of them for presents.

This is the sari-wala at the "Cheap Silk Sari Store."

Here I am drinking Sprite at the sari shop next to a mannequin wearing a sari. The Sprite was really good and free. They gave us chai and water too!

This is me holding a really cool silk sari with blue roses and blue outlining. 

 

 

 

This is us picking out shirt and pant material to give to the men.