The Monsoon!

So, 6 amazing girls that I am living with in the CCS flat decided to go on a world win trip for the weekend to Jaipur and Agra!! We hired a driver to take us to Jaipur which is about a 5 hour drive from Dehli. We planned to stay in Jaipur Fri night, spend the entire day checking out the city, and then leave at 2am on Sun morining to go to Agra to see the most infamous structure in all the world. The Taj Mahal!!!!!

As we are packing on Friday afternoon all of a sudden the Monsoon swept in! I have never seen it rain so hard, with the wind blowing so harshly. It just so happened that the monsoon came in just as we were about to leave. I couldn't believe it! Then right when we were about to exit the door there was a leak in our bathroom roof. Water was starting to come in and make a nice size puddle on the floor. We quickly put some buckets there to collect the water and we called Bella (the director of the program) to come see about the roof. Luckily, it turned out to be ok and all was fine.

Then we all ran to meet our cab driver weaving in and out of all the tree branches that had fallen all over the pathway. We are all glad to have made it into the cab until we got outside the apartment complex...

Apparently, they do not have a very good draining system here in India so once we hit the main road they were completely flooded!! I mean water that came up to at least the lower part of your calf (depending on how tall you are). All of these cars are trying to get through a river of water. Meanwhile you are seeing people pushing their rikshaws, motorcycles stuck in the flood, tons of cars and traffic, busses trying to get through, fruit stands on the side of the road in a foot of water, and tons of people trying to take cover. I mean it was chaotic. I even saw a random guy on horse back coming into the traffic. Totally random!! Where the heck did the guy on horse back come from? It was too wild....

Welcome to India....and my first Monsoon!! Craziness!!