Mumbai – First Impressions
Mumbai is a big crazy city but not as crazy as the place I came from (Cairo). So, I was not terrified or taken by the crowded streets or the aliveness of this city but I found the smell and the weather very strange and weird for me and of course the Hindi and the English spoken in a Hindi style with a heavy Indian accent was not an easy thing to get used to.
The biggest problem we faced before Sachi arriving to India was what to eat??? Nothing is familiar to me! I didn’t understand anything neither the names of the meal nor the ingredients.
So our survival instinct and the joy of experimenting were really funny and interesting.
Because in India everything is different, even the stuff you think is the same everywhere, In India is different so don’t count on going to Mac and ordering a nice big Mac meal cause there they only serve chicken NO meat. So good luck my friends!
Traveling around Mumbai, the first couple of days were really interesting. First of all, I have never experienced in all my travels so far, that the way I look was gonna categorize me as a tourist or outsider. But in Mumbai, it did and it was clear as a sun that I was a visitor. So anyways, I was enjoying everything that was happening to me and around me and I was super positive and looking forward for the adventure to start.
26th Aug 2009
Dina
