A fourteen hour flight from Newark later, we made it to India. It’s now Thursday morning here–India is about 12 hours ahead of U.S. time, depending on what time zone you’re in. We’re planning to stay in Delhi, the capitol of India, for the next couple of days with a couple from California named B. and E.
We’re scheduled to meet with a couple of other workers in the next couple of days who are doing ministry here.
So far, the weather is really nice. I expected it to be really hot, but when we got in at 10pm last night it was really comfortable, and so far this morning is fairly cool. It should be getting hotter, though.
I had my first cup of Indian chai tea this morning. Chai tea is very common here and is often offered to one’s household guests. It was really good! When I was growing up, my mom always drank her tea different than about anyone I’ve seen. She put a ton of milk and sugar in it, so that by the time it was prepared it was a milky light brown color. I always liked it a lot. Well, it turns out that that’s exactly what the chai tea I had tasted like. Not bad!
Well, that’s all I have to report for now, but I’ll continue to update my blog as I’m able to.
Until next time…
Chai has become pretty popular in the states too, although I’ve heard that theirs has a lot more interesting spices in it whereas ours is mostly just cinnamon and processed sugar added in.
I was never a fan of tea until one of my indian friends introduced me to Indian Chai Tea and I loved it! I think it was because it tasted more like a dessert than tea, from all the sugar and cream.
- Jason Barnett
Yeah, it’s good stuff here. I feel like it actually tastes similar to chai in the States. The cool thing here is you get it every time you go somewhere. I’ve had 5 cups of it in the past two days.
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