Some more pictures!

Elsa on our street where we live!

Elsa cutting the cake on her birthday.

Anu me and Elsa on her birthday by a beautiful lake.

Eating snacks in India is so easy and cheap. Here me Anu,
Elsa and Shiva is having noodles for only 10 rupies, around 1,5 swedish crownes.

Me, in Saari for the first time. It was on the Indian republik day and we had a celebration at work.

Shiva and me on the way to Chumandi Hill where there is a nice tempel with a beautiful view.

A normal image here. A lot of cows on a normal street.

Pushpa and Elin bargin at a market.

My favorite drink here!

My favorite drink here, Mirinda. In India you are not allowed to touch with the lips while drinking, it took me a whoile before I got the hang of it but look now!

Transexual's rights in India.

Nina, a curious girl, Elsa and Nancy sitting in the parc doing our project work about transsexual's rights in India.

Before I come here to India I think I had a lot of prejudges but most of them have been smashed since I arrived here. One prejudge was that the situation for gays and transsexuals was really bad. In some ways maybe it is, but transsexuals on local language Hijidas, is quite common here and they have a long history, maybe thousands of years. Elsa have transsexual friends, Nancy is really enthusiastic about their rights, Nina have worked with hbt-rights in Sweden and I see it as a part of the feminist straggle so we all feel very strongly about this subject. Therefore we decided to make our project work about transsexual's rights in India. Today we were sitting in the parc, discussing it and writing a project plan. It was really nice and I'll tell you more about it later.

Nancy and me in the parc.

On my own for the first time!

Today is the first I'm outside the house without Elsa, I've just gone to an internet cafe 5 minutes from home but still the traffic is crazy. However I have stopped thinking that my last moment is coming each time I cross a street and I become braver day by day. Normally Elsa and I do everything together, it is very sweet and all, she really takes good care of me but it feels nice to have a tiny piece of independence again.

I can't upload pictures on this computer either so I'm afraid you have to wait some more for the wedding pictures. After the wedding we had such a nice time, Elsa, the host mother Komaula, Sonia (who works as an engineer and lives with the family) and me. Everybody agreed that being married is comparable to sitting in gail for a woman. I think women here are much more honest about their situation and find more comfort in each other than in Sweden. Then again the women's rights situation is completely different here in India.

When it comes to marriages here in India, it is most common that the parents arrange it and that the husband and wife don't know each other before. They believe it is a better insurance than being in love for a stable marriage, and that you learn to love someone if you are married to him/her. My host parnets had an arranged wedding and I beielve that they love each other now. When I told them about Swedish system with deworses being common and that most people remarry, the host father said that he never wanted someone else but Komaula and that he only loved her.

Their daughter Nandini, have a love marrige, which is less common and has less status, but the host mother is really proud of that, it was one of the first things she told me about her family. Whether you have an arraged or love marriage depends on the family, but in general people are very open about it and it is easy to talk about.

Indian wedding!

Two days ago I went to an indian wedding it was really nice! Everybody wore so beautiful Saris and the food was so tasty. I'll post pictures later so you'll see. Today we are going to have educatinal day about child labour which seems to be quite common here. I often see small kids working in their parents shop ect, due to pouverty.

I'll update soon again with pictures! See ya!

First pictures!!!

A normal breakfast here in India, Chapati bread with chutney and masala, so tasty!!

Elsa, my Indian partner, and I in the host family, eating breakfast.

Elsa with her soft toys, one japanease bear and one swedish elk.

My friend Shiva, feeding a banana to a monkey.

Elsa, me, Aishwarya, Elin and Rebecka outside a tempel in the middle of the night

The host father with his granddaughter Surevi, rhey really love each other.

Surevi with her mother, Nandini.
She is so nice, yesterday she took us shopping!

Elsa and I in the host family with friends to the family.

The whole groupe of indian swedish people outside Mysore palace which was really beautiful.

This is from the first day when we arrived here in India. They had a beautiful welcome ceremony.

Me in Elsa's Shoridar, traditional indian dress.
On our way to work and met this nice cow.

Elsa, my indian partner, and I in a shopping mall buying me indian clothes.

Yesterday the host mother Komaula taught me to cook "Palov", it was really good.