Lunch the last two days was just plain awful. Yesterday had two soupy curries. One was spicy and had tomato chunks in it. The other was even spicier and had some kind of beans in it. Today had the same tomato soupy curry and a spicy potato and vegetable curry. I could at least get the potatoes down if I mixed it with the rice. Basically it was potatoes and rice for the last two days. You know it is spicy when your nose starts running and you have a bead of sweat on your forehead after one spoonful. The other people at the table were saying it was flavorful.

I have liked the thicker curries with some kind of vegetable meatball type thing in it. At least it feels like I am eating something with some substance to it compared to just mixing in the curry and the rice.

My savior when I get home is becoming Dominos. I have turned to the veg personal pizza which is 35 rupees or about 70 cents. I have had the shallots and the onion so far. I would go with the non-veg but they only put a couple pieces of chicken on it and double the price. When I walk over there I feel like I am the main attraction. I get a few stares and hear the word American and pointing in my direction.

I must be feeling more comfortable because I walked the 6 blocks to Dominos at 9 pm last night in the dark. There are a few street lights next to Dominos. It was the first time I have seen the bugs swarming. As I sat down outside waiting for the pizza I had about 10 different kinds of bugs land or crawl on me. They were just about every size to. From a 1 inch beetle crawling on the ground and over my shoe to some little tiny flying bugs. At least nothing was biting.

For breakfast I am going with the cheese omlette. Instead of toast I am going with what ever India bread they have. Sometimes they even have chilies on the bread or cooked in the bread. I also get a couple of chicken sausage links, occasionally they will mix in the spicy version but I can see the red and green flakes on it. They also have some kind of potato. Usually potato and cheese which is just a sliced potato with cheese melted on it. Then a couple pieces of fruit, usually watermelon and some kind of other mellon. Breakfast has become the biggest meal of the day for me.

In the breakfast restaurant there are usually 7 guys waiting on me offering me anything from juice to coffee to tea and looking to refill it after every sip. The good thing is I walk in and they start cooking the omlette right away for me. I am still usually the only person in the place around 8 am.

The temp has cooled down to about 100 the last few days. According to weather.com it is about 92 but with humidity it is 104. It does feel cooler out. If I was in MN I would be complaining about the heat and would be hanging around a lake. Here I have a muddy puddle to stomp in from Monday’s rain.