Saturday, February 2, 2008

Our Building & Preliminary Shopping



Here's a picture of the front of our building, and another over to the right, where you can see the windows our apartment.




Jorg, Norbert’s childhood friend in Berlin who is married to a Delliwallah and was here for just a quick vist, showed us another market. We’ve been having trouble finding basic household items for inexpensive prices. Kahn market is too expensive for silly things, like a colander, a can opener and two bowls big enough to eat cereal in. We can’t find these things at the B-10 market, Vasant Arcade or the KC on campus. So we found them at a market near the Bengali market—also home to the amazing Bengali Sweet Shop, which serves excellent coconut chutney and huge puffy puris with dal. On the street I happened upon a wallet salesman and found something that fits these huge—and numerous—rupee bills that one must carry around. Neither the one I use in the US, nor my UK one for all those heavy pound coins works.

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