We did go out for dinner last night just to the local restaurant called Herbs and Spices which kind of serves some European dishes although I had these vegetable dumpling type things form the Indian section and roti. To be honest my tummy has been a little funny this week and I know it sound bad but I would just like some normal food, maybe just for the day!
Been to Carnations today, another one of the nursery schools here. It's behind a new temple that is being constructed which at the moment is white and I did at first think how funny, a white temple. Kumar told me that it's because its not finished!
After doing a few bits and pieces with the teachers one of them showed me this liquid that you put on bananas when they are green and it turns them yellow in two days. I was suitably impressed with this as I never knew it existed! Although when I explained this amazing discovery to Kumar he seemed to already know about it-boo!
At the school the children are given a meal a day and always fruit and they try to buy extra for the children to take home because some of their families can really never afford fresh fruit. Things like this always make me stop and think because we are told we need 5 pieces of fruit or veg a day to be healthy but if you have not got the money to buy it or resources to grow it then how can you be healthy or what is deemed as being healthy? Its hard to believe if you do not see it that there really are a lot of people who do not have things that I guess we think of as basic items in our lives. An apple or even a banana a day for them is really not a reality.
I didn't realize also until I saw it on the news that some of the people here have to line up for rations of food from the government. When I went to the post office the other day I saw a line of maybe 30 people outside a kind of hut. There was a board out the front with writing in chalk which I could not understand and also a large set of scales as I tried to peer in. The people were stood with baskets and sacks and this is what it was for-the government rations of basic commodities.
I suppose in some ways its good that the government is supplying these things but its just so sad that this is the case in this day and age. And yes the hut was complete with cow as was the post office which I think I mentioned earlier! Oh and some of the cows have their horns painted and with bells too. This was not the case for the hut or post office cow but was the case for the cow under the coconut tree. Its horns or do I say her horns, oh I know nothing about animal genders but anyway this coconut cow as I shall refer to it had purple horns, rather regal!
Not as much rain today so stopped at the local supermarket on the way home and ended up buying two bags because they have a little section of bits and pieces that have been hand made my local people. This of course is ridiculous because I don't need any more bags like I really don't need any more scarves! They may well end up being presents which is how I justified buying them.
Now, having read this through rather quickly, I feel a bit silly because I am writing about regal looking cows with purple horns and people who live in the poorest of areas and who cannot afford fresh fruit and on top of the cows and poor people I am also writing about two bags I have just bought albeit made by local people and at the coast of $5, so thats like 3.50GBP I think. Woops so now if you have read this and you are the recipient of a bag you will know exactly how much I have spent or rather have not spent on you!
I am just wondering which side of Bangalore PM Cameron got to see on his visit here on Wednesday? I hope that he saw the real Bangalore.
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