Bricks and Balloons *UPDATED pictures and video*

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For those of you that don’t know, bricks and balloons is a “game/ice breaker” where a person lists one negative (brick) and then a positive (balloon). As one of my friends once said, “You have to tie balloon around the brick to make the brick float away.” So here it goes…

Brick: 

Dorris is gone. I went to wash my face this morning and my saheli (Hindi for girlfriend to be used only among girls) was gone. I stared at the spot where she use to curl up in the corner and hang upside down. There was this little pang in my heart…and then I washed my face.

Balloon: 

I went to Agra this weekend, which is where the Taj Mahal and many other old ruins/tomb sites/ forts are located. It was a fun weekend, though I had to wake up at 5 AM for two mornings in a row. While the Taj was beautiful and definitely worth seeing, it didn’t really do anything for me. Maybe on part because I have just seen so many tomb sites and old ruins that the grandeur and majesticness of them has dulled. Also, of all the tombs I have been to, the Taj felt most like an actual tomb. When I walked inside the Taj I immediately saw the tomb where Shah Jahan had had his wife buried. A small lantern dangled above the tomb; otherwise, the room was eerily dark, giving off a somber feeling. The walls of the room were beautiful marble with flower designs, and a matching fence like barrier that circled the tomb. As I exited the Taj and came out onto he back terrace area, I was able to look out over what seemed like all of Agra. It was a rainy day, so there was this magical light mist encircling the Taj and its gardens. Of course, all us girls on the trip just assumed the Taj was one of those places where it never rains and the sun always shines, since every picture of the Taj is a clear blue sky kind of day. So you can imagine how we all felt on the bus when we finally arrived to the Taj at 6 in the morning, some of us wearing sarees—all of us wearing picture-makeup for our Taj photo.

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