This is India, too! :(
well..... as everybody always asks me about the hygene in india. Finally i got some stories to tell.......
Yesterday all of my flatmates felt a little sick, stomachproblems, some had fever. One of the guys and me decided to not go to work as we had thrown up during the night and didn´t feel well in the morning. The others went despite feeling not very well. Today I went home early because after eating lunch I started to feel unwell again. And arriving home I found 3 of my other flatmates sleeping. So all in all everybody felt really sick. We were trying to figure out what it was and the conclusions was that it was the water at a restaurant in BOM that we had. We didn´t ask for a sealed mineralwater-bottle but just had the water they normally provide for free. They said that it was filtered...... well, I GUESS NOT!
Anyways, no need to worry. I bought some healthy fruits (kiwi, appel) and I´ll make myself a sandwich tonight. It´s already getting better.
Some other things that I should at least once mention in my blog because they are also part of the india that i experience:
there are so many poor people! They really live on the street. Especially around the trainstation (very close to my work) you will find a lot of them. They sleep on the footpath and have a plastic foil attached to the wall and the ending of the footpath- kind of a tent. This is where they keep their belongings. You see halfnaked kids, women, men, all living there, among the exhaust gases (abgase). These people are so black because of the pollution and when they ask you for a rupee their voices sound sooo unhealthy. It is hard to ignore all this.
At my work today I saw this lady who was suffering from tuberculosis and HIV. And she was so thinny that I could see her lungs moving in her chest. She was only bones.
Yesterday all of my flatmates felt a little sick, stomachproblems, some had fever. One of the guys and me decided to not go to work as we had thrown up during the night and didn´t feel well in the morning. The others went despite feeling not very well. Today I went home early because after eating lunch I started to feel unwell again. And arriving home I found 3 of my other flatmates sleeping. So all in all everybody felt really sick. We were trying to figure out what it was and the conclusions was that it was the water at a restaurant in BOM that we had. We didn´t ask for a sealed mineralwater-bottle but just had the water they normally provide for free. They said that it was filtered...... well, I GUESS NOT!
Anyways, no need to worry. I bought some healthy fruits (kiwi, appel) and I´ll make myself a sandwich tonight. It´s already getting better.
Some other things that I should at least once mention in my blog because they are also part of the india that i experience:
there are so many poor people! They really live on the street. Especially around the trainstation (very close to my work) you will find a lot of them. They sleep on the footpath and have a plastic foil attached to the wall and the ending of the footpath- kind of a tent. This is where they keep their belongings. You see halfnaked kids, women, men, all living there, among the exhaust gases (abgase). These people are so black because of the pollution and when they ask you for a rupee their voices sound sooo unhealthy. It is hard to ignore all this.
At my work today I saw this lady who was suffering from tuberculosis and HIV. And she was so thinny that I could see her lungs moving in her chest. She was only bones.
one of these small 'tents' where families live
truckdriver decorating his truck for hindu-festival
women washing cloths on my rd
streets during the rain
hairdresser
posted by ANke at 5:29 PM
1 Comments:
Ha Anke,
De minder mooie... maar toch zeker interessante kanten van India. Herkenbaar vanuit Midden Amerika.
Kus, Karin
PS: nog een maand te gaan!! Okee iets meer dan... Mis je wel hoor hier
7:38 PM
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