Day 1

On May 15 Ankita, Giovanni, and I took Air Canada from La Guardia to Toronto, where we found Nate waiting at the gate for our flight to India. We had some food, and spoke with Matteo whose flight from Newark was delayed. He arrived just in time and we got on the flight ready for fourteen hours on the plane. Just by chance it turned out that Nate and I had been assigned seats next to each other and Ankita, Giovanni, and Matteo were only a few rows away. The flight was long but uneventful, and I was quite happy thanks to Nate's collection of quality magazines such as In Touch and Nylon as well as games of War and a new itunes playlist. The plane was not full but we didn't find an empty row, so Giovani stretched out on the floor with ankita and matteo sleepign on the seats. When we arrived in Delhi we waited at the airport for Allison and Imane and then headed out to our hotel. It was about midnight when we got to the hotel and so we went to sleep after a quick snack on fabulous candy which Imane had brought. The next day we woke up early thanks to jet lag and had Indian breakfast at the hotel. Matteo asked for continental inially, but changed his mind after he learned they did not have croissants. We then went to see the Lakshmi Narayan Temple and the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, also stopping by Nirulas in connaught place. In the afternoon Imane and Matteo went to the internet cafe Reliance Webworld, and Nate, Matteo and I went back to the airport to pick up matteo's bag and also to gurgaon to drop off Nate's bags at his office (PSi). the Psi office in Gurgaon was amazing- the whole area was very upscale and looked like Florida. It turns out the office is also right below the Indian MTV office! On the way back, our driver did not know where to go and we were stuck in traffic, so it was an experience. We arrived at the airport late and discovered that the Air Canada office was locked. luckily when the Air canada flight arrived with the rest of our group the office reopened. So we made it back to the hotel tired but happy and ready for our early wake up to take the train to Ludhiana.