12/20/2012

It’s day 463 of my journey towards independence and day 13 of vacation fed myself Puri and potato curry for breakfast and traveled back to Anchal – my mother’s house. Today we had a slew of visitors at my dad’s house because they heard we were leaving to come here to my mom’s house my favorite was this elderly gentleman who when we first met asked me can you speak Malayalam – the official language of Kerala – twice and I answered him by saying isn’t that what I’m speaking after which today he come to visit and asked are there ignorant fools like me in South Africa (what I love about my interactions with that gentleman is that I managed to changed his perception of people who are different in the space of two meetings at the beginning of our first meeting his eyes were full of pity which quickly changed when I gave his foolish question the reply it deserved).