1/3 gone...........................

So it is the last morning of my stay in India and I am officially 1/3 through my whole trip - at some ungodly hour tonight I shall board my plane and fly to Perth (albeit for some reason I can't understand I am adding on about 12 hours to the trip by flying there via Dubai...)

Tamil Nadu is completely unique, The people are kind and sooooooo hospitable - they will go completely out of their way for a friend or even a confused visitor & their music is definitely unique - tip: Anyone visiting Chennai must bring a new, healthy ipod filled with thousands of western songs or risk suffering an anuerysm caused by hearing the same 3 songs nonstop everywhere you go... The only reason I survived was by singing a compilation of broken Beatles lyrics and 80s Powerballads loudly to myself - it was as if they had never seen someone belting out Aerosmiths 'I don't want to miss a thing' before...

There have been some lows - the hospital, pollution and the withdrawal symptoms from McDonald's, but these were definately beaten 10:1 by the highs! I have had some great times here and i really will miss it... Just yesterday I visited Simiyon's village(Simiyon is one of the guys who run the Gummipoondi boys town and I really shall miss him!) and there we were sitting when one of Simi's friends drove up on a bike and took me back to see his baby boy... He was this tiny little bundle and I found out he was only 2 days old. I asked what his name was and the dad replied 'why don't you name him'...
Instantly my head was full of a dozen different suggestions including (and I'm not proud to admit these) Sonic, Zeus, T-dog or McNugget; but then I realised that the Father was completely serious - he really wanted me, someone he had known for just 10 minutes to name his only child a christian name and wish for him to be healthy. I held back my more immature side and thought deep and in the end christened the boy Paul after my own Dad... Wait a min - does this mean I'm the kids godfather?

Sorry this hasn't been a massive long essay of a post like normal but I have about 30,000 things to do before my flight... I will tell you this quickly though - this is the end of my trip in India but not the end of my blog... the content will completely change, the style will probably change just as much, I will almost certainly be even later in posting stuff up but I shall still be here on this site - until then Bye bye y'all! See you in Oz!!