Merry Christmas blog enthusiasts! It’s a beautiful, warm Christmas day in India and everything is bright and sunny around here, literally. Well actually not everything is sunny and warm..my blogging production lately has been ice cold. Colder than an Indian riding his scooty thru the 70 degree Pune winter night who forgot to wear a scarf with his short sleeve Being Human tee. When it comes to my blog this semester, I Scrooged up. I haven’t posted in over 2 months. I’ve abandoned my blog because of laziness and lack of appreciation for the joys blogging brings not only myself but the thousands around the globe I write for. I became a blog Scrooge, and looking back it’s easy to say I’ve been bah, humbled in the blogging game that I thought I had under control before I got here. But it’s Christmas, my fav holiday, and nothing can kill my jolliness right now as I blast my treasured NSYNC Christmas cd and anticipate a dominating Thunder wictory. So I’ll continue onwards in my blog with a Christmas gift for you guys as an extension of my renewed blogging spirit. I wanted to give a quick picture recap of my life lately here in India to hopefully catch you up on where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing:
Here is our living room. Our apartment is all set up and looking festive. However, 4 months in and we are still waiting on our water filter to be fixed. I've called my flat owner like 10 times to no avail, now things are just getting aqua-rd for us all.
With our apartment finished, I've been able to get out into the city and make some new friends. 
Our team had a great Thanksgiving day meal. Power goes out randomly every week on Thursdays, so it made for an interesting and decently stressful morning of food preparation. Everyone cooking pulled thru tho with their dishes and I ham so glad they were able to.
We took a trip to Varanasi, the oldest city in India, for a week of new staff training. The city is located off the Ganges River, which is considered holy to Hindus. Notice how uncharacteristically high my pants are rolled up, we all make mistakes.
Celebrated Halloween with a little costume party. Best way to explain my costume is that there are a lot of foreigners who come to Pune to partake in this weird meditation program and they all walk around in get-ups similar to the one I'm rocking.
I bought a car in November, the Chevy Spark. My own miniature minivan that I've always wanted. It might be a small little hatchback car with a big blow to my ego but it's perfect for squeezing thru congested traffic and I've grown to love it.
And here are some random pics you might enjoy:
I've done a lot of traveling lately and it can get exhausting. A little relaxing bro time is much needed.
I try to play golf once a month here in Pune. This is me just warming up at the driving range...aka the hole infested green tarp. Not picture to the left is my Indian caddy who places the ball down for me and picks up all my range balls 10 feet away.
Some of us took a couple vacation days this last week to visit Goa, where you can find the nicest Indian beaches. The trip was awesome and the beaches were beautiful. I plan to put some pics up from Goa and also from our Christmas day later this week. Hope you enjoyed the pics and have a great Christmas!
Kev
