juhu

I now live in Juhu, Mumbai, India. It's a cute little neighborhood of this crazy intense indian city. We're renting a one room place that is really nice, much nicer than anything i expected. 2 beds pushed together, a closet that locks, two windows with curtains... We've got our own bathroom with western toilet and shower. we're paying something like $4.50 a night, 2 months paid in advance which is steep for india but it's worth it i think. we're not in a touristy are. our neighborhood is relatively clean and there aren't many beggers or people sleeping on the street.
at the moment, i'm listening to Jesse rehearse with a couple musicians for a show they are going to do tomorrow. there was a singer here before who was ok-they're doing sting, U2, alanis morrisette-, and once the singer left jesse has just been trying to teach these guys how to play. pretty much. indians trying to play jazz... it's worse than israelis trying to play jazz. oh well. hopefully he'll get paid at least :)
tomorrow we're starting yoga lessons. we're gonna do yoga 5 days a week every morning from 7:30-8:30. it's a big yoga school about 20 min. from our place. bus costs 4.5 rupees. that's like half a shekel which is ... i don't know. the yoga cost 300 Rs for the first month. That's 30 shekels. eventually i'll stop converting.
we are only about 4 min. walk from the music school but i haven't started lessons there and jesse has only gotten one lesson so far but when Nayan (the Tabla master) gets back from touring next week hopefully we'll get into a routine with lessons. We sat in his office and talked with him for a while the other night. He's a really cool guy. He has a real Guru air about him.
he's really busy with performing but hopefully we'll see more of him and Jesse will get to have at least a couple lessons a week. i'm still waiting to get a voice teacher too.
food here is great...obviously. i'm still not used to the spice though so i get full really easily. i guess it's nice. we usually get thali which is the standard dinner or lunch. they give you a bunch of chapati and all different vegi things to mix with the bread and rice. i don't know the names of it all yet. but this is definitely the place to be for a vegetarian. the indian food is really like a crazy celebration of flavors all at once. maybe we'll learn how to cook a bit.
i got my measurements taken to have a kurta (indian dress) thing made for me. it'll be ready by saturday. we'll start taking pictures soon i guess.
ok, looks like people are packing up their instruments. i'll get going too. write me friends. miss you.
namaste