All ya Need is Love

Hey guys! Well, it is pretty sweet over here on this side of the world, i must admit. Although, i'd advise any visitors to stay away from the grss (it's full of burrs). I went into an empty lot to take pictures of some flowers and when i got back on the street, me and the others were COVERED in them. they were impossible! But today we went to a nature reserve that was so pretty! there were monkies, antelope, peacocks, goats, and lots of birds. The crickets sound like rattle snakes which was pretty scary at first. We hiked up a mountain there and saw all of Jaipur. That would be the second time this week i've hiked up a mountain-both times i didn't plan on it so i was wearing a dress and flip flops! figures. Don't underestimate a girl in a dress and flip flops :) No majjor mishaps, except i kind of freaked out when a giant ant fell on my head. No harm done though.
I went to the market the other day and it was so busy and chaotic and awesome! Everyone tries to get you to buy their stuff and children hover around, asking for money. Indian music is blaring and you smell all sorts of foods and garbage and urine (men pee wherever they please). I took lots of pictures, but i can't add them from this computer and mine can't get internet just yet.
A friend here gave me a chunk of his sugarcane stalk which was delish. I felt pretty native chewing on a piece of sugarcane. Also i like all the Indian commercials haha. they have a cream to lighten skin tones, which i thought was interesting since girls back home buy tinted lotion to darken theirs! Other funny ones are a dad telling his son that his mom is prego (even though you'd think he'd notice since she looks 8 mths along!) and a girl 'seductively' dancing in the rain in her sari, advertising deoderant :)
We eat pretty much the same stuff every day-rice, veggies, and chopatti (all different pita-like breads). Today we went to this place called "the dairy" which is just what it says. It's next door to the place where they milk the cows. You go to different windows to get "softies", kulfi, hard icecream in a cup, some wierd drink, milk, or milk shakes. These things are all a bit different from what you'd get in the states, but good none the less :) Also there are these addictive pretzel-like things caled jubati-crispy twists covered in sugary syrup stuff. those things are the bomb...between those and Maaza, a mango nectar drink, i think i can deal with the veggies and rice :)
I feel like i'm starting to understand love. true love. The love of God. It's a bit different and feels different from what i thought love was before. it's more relaxed and inclusive. it's like a presence-it's everywhere. it coveres everything-enemies, friends and family, the lost, the hurt, the broken, children and old people, mean people, nice people. it's unescapable. Not sure how to describe it. I always liked what Paul had to say about the love of Christ in the new testament, but now i feel like a light turned on-i don't just like the sound but i UNDERSTAND it. I feel it all around me and don't know how anyone could ever not feel it. and it makes God's existance so undoubtedly true too. He's just so GREAT! :) well, that's all my ranting for the day
love you guys! Have peace and know that you are ALWAYS loved, whther you want to be or not. :)
Cassie