torsdag 18 februari 2010

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.

fredag 5 februari 2010

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!

torsdag 4 februari 2010

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.