Breakthrough: Today, we will be having a tour of the junior high and mark some significant places. Next year, there will be not 500, not 600, but 1,100 students all together 7th and 8th grade combined.
...(continuation of India Trip X) He was so cute, I did not wish to leave him. But the next day we had to leave for Trivandrum (Thiruananthapuram) for a ceremony called "Poonal." All brahmins have to wear this white string and this was a ceremony for a boy of 8 in my family, who was going to wear a poonal for the first time in his life. Anyway, that evening we arived, we took a bath in sacred waters where once a boy who is now a sage was bitten on the leg by a crocodile. In the water was many fish. It tickles you whenever it takes dirt off you. So it is kind of a natural bath. The fish take dirt off you if you stand in one place. Sadly because the place has now become a tourist spot, people have trashed the area. Anyway, the next morning, we left for Trivandrum in a train. This was during the day, so we did not sleep much. When we arrived, I was excited. This was the first time I would see a whole different part of my family I had never seen before. Strangely, they acted as if I were their friend instead of a cousin......
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