Riches and Roaches

Sooo, we've got some pets.... The girls in the apartment across from me found close to ten cockroaches in the last couple days, along with the ants and the lizards = ). We've deemed one of the girls the slayer, she's ruthless with a frying pan. Just so you know what we're dealing with here, these aren't your USA-ant size roaches, they're beasts. This one was about the size of my thumb:Lucien and I lucked out and we haven't found any in our apartment yet but everyone else has. They're fast resilient little buggers.. big buggers, that never die and always bring friends.

By the way, I did manage to sort out my region DVD problem (VLC player fixes everything) and now I can watch the Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and Hercules on my computer whenever I like, woot! By the way, all three of those movies along with the Blue Planet series and two Hindi movies were purchases for a whopping 50$. I should come here just to shop, I'd probably pay for the plane ticket with the money I save by shopping in rupees. Almost everything is under ten dollars, cab rides are usually under two dollars and split between three people, a gourmet meal is about 8 bucks, designer clothes are like 20$ (we're talking Gucci).

We're living like kings off of the conversion rate but we can't forget that we're doing it in a third world country. I'm learning what the words 'poverty' and 'grateful' really mean, and I'm learning how to kill a cockroach with a frying pan. It's a mixed bag here so I guess all there is to do is take the good and the bad, the riches and the roaches, and to learn a little on the way.