- How green and beautiful everything from landscapes to tiny flowers become during monsoon season.
- Spicy and flavorful food all the time! There's never a dull moment in the culinary department.
- Tea. Multiple times a day. For 16 cents a cup.
- Speaking of inexpensive, how cheap (mostly) everything is...except when you're craving Nutella or Nature Valley granola bars.
- Tiny fruit stands and juicing centers.
- Being encouraged to wear flip flops every day.
- How friendly and curious fellow students are to get to know you.
- Naan/Roti/Puri/Chapthi.
- Giant yoga classes, 5 days per week, for $6 a month.
- Getting to sleep a solid eight hours per night.
- Temples, upon temples, upon temples!
- Trying, and often failing, to understand English with an Indian accent. It makes for all the more fun.
- Having clean drinking water in Manipal.
- Visiting health centers, community centers, hospitals, etc every Friday to learn more about the Indian Health System.
- Manipal University's enormous library.
- Unnecessarily excessive security checks. For example, you have to show your ID twice, leave your bag in a guarded room, and be swiped through two doors to get into the library.
- Auto rickshaws as far as the eye can see!
- Late dinners...which I am off to right now! More to come soon.
Love,
Nikki
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