anbaric05

Just did some much-needed cleaning out of my gallery. And am now doing a much-needed update of my journal. Mostly because i'm tired of looking at the other one that's been there for over a year now. Hooray for shit-tastic poetry.

So today I celebrated the Hindu festival Holi, which is the spring festival of colors :) People get together and throw tons of colored powder on each other, as well as water balloons! I've wanted to do it for a few years now, I just never had a place to go to celebrate it (you really need a big crowd). We (the group of people from my class about South Asia) were going to go to a Hindu temple that usually does it, but the leader of their temple was recently convicted of molesting teenage girls, so they're not doing it this year. Luckily UT (University of Texas..the big one in Austin that everyone knows) had one this year. Their Hindu Student A

Ok, so i'm beginning my second week in Texas and things are going pretty well. I'm right next to a small but surprisingly capable town, so i've done more walking this past week than i think i ever did in a month before i came here. That's something i love about this place though. I'm excited about doing more walking (and going up more stairs in the unforgiving Texas heat) and getting healthier. For once i drink more water than tea or soda. I've made quite a few friends here, but it still feels a bit lonely because none of them know me as well as my friends back home know me yet. At first it was all meeting new people every day and forgetting