The Lonely Roommate

Rita and Erik tearing up the dance floor

Seeing as Rachel was gone this weekend working in the Sunderbans with her NGO, I dubbed myself the lonely roommate for the weekend. I worked on some homework but then decided to go to Salt Lake for some of my weekend to hang out with some of my fellow study abroaders. Some of the other students from Salt Lake were also gone in Bodh Gaya for the weekend probably trying to seek enlightenment as they did some Buddhist meditation. Anyway, I got to Salt Lake and hung out with Erik for awhile seeing as he was also a lonely roommate with Adam having left, and then we met up with Rita at a local club called Afraa. Rita and I happened to be in luck because Friday nights are ladies night (sorry Erik, you possess too much testosterone), so we just hung around and talked (when Rita wasn't tearing up the dance floor and having men hand her napkins that says she has beautiful eyes). We even met a young Indian man from the East Bengal soccer team, who had met Rita previously, and talked to us for a couple of minutes about coming to a game. It was lots of fun and we had a good time.

Erik the Kingfisher, as I like to call him (Kingfisher is a type of Indian beer)

After walking Rita home and talking for a couple more minutes, I went back and snuggled down in Adam's bed (after a game of darts that I was rather dismal at) seeing as us lonely roommates had to stick together. I woke up the next morning and ate some of the best omelets I have ever had, took a shower, and got dressed to go to the mall to watch a movie. While we waited, Erik showed off his mad skills on the piano (he really is a good piano player...he was playing everything from disney, to Journey and Billy Joel, to Bach). Then we headed out to go see the Avengers. One of the good things about being in India is that apparently the movie The Avengers comes out a week earlier than in the United States, so I was lucky that I got to see it early. Erik and I are both Marvel fans and seeing as no one else wanted to go (Drew blew us off like usual) we went to see it and was blown away by how good it was. Erik and I both agree that it is one of the best superhero movies we have seen and that is saying a lot seeing as I love to watch superhero movies and Erik's dad owns a collectibles store with comic books. If anyone is bored next week in the US or any other country, I recommend going to see this movie (dad, we will have to see it with mom on the Monday I get back. Mom, I hope you will go with us because it was really good). It was definitely worth going to see and I was happy that I wasn't the lonely roommate for long :)

Me showing Rita my finished Long Island