Our Last Days in India

Hello all!
I am writing you on our last night in India. I am so excited to leave. I can only handle being sweaty and hot and rained on and hungry for so long. These last few days have been rough. After the last blog I wrote we went back to our hotel and the power was out. It stayed out until 12:30 AM. We had no fan and it might have been our hottest night here. Emily and I layed as still as possible in our underwear for a long long time because I was about to flip out on someone or something. Do you ever get in one of those situations of being hot and uncomfortable that you just might kill to get cool? That was me. Emily fell asleep pretty quick but I layed there staring up at the motionless fan so angry. I layed awake till the power came on. Then I was okay.
We went to school and I got in trouble with the teacher. She doesn't do anything and even sometimes sleeps and when I tried coloring with my boy for the last ten minutes of class, she came and took the book that we were copying from away. Haha.
Yesterday Emily and I spent the afternoon just lying around the room and also started packing. We bought sweets from our sweet shop and I bought a banana...it was amazing. We hung out in the room and had dinner and ate our sweets and then watched one of my favorite movies on tv: Life Is Beautiful. I hate when the movie has been dubbed over in English but we somehow managed to watch it.
Today at school it was one of the boys birthdays, thank goodness. Someone got a cake and lots of little treats for everyone. We sang and it was a lot of fun. We worked for a little over an hour and then the teacher said it was time to go....it was 45 minutes before we normally leave. We said our final goodbyes to the kids who hadn't already run off to their houses. While waiting for our train it started to downpour on us. We got on to whichever train car was closest and it happened to be the vendor car. This is where all the men that are moving whatever fodo or nasty thing they sell into the city. I got on and there was no room but I had Emily by the hand and she was barely in...it is still pouring outside during all of this chaos. I finally was able to pull Emily on just before we started moving. She said the only thing she was holding onto was my hand and barely because it was wet. This car smelled like a mix between nasty old cigarette and barnyard animals. I covered my nose with my shirt AND a bandana and still smelled it. Plus it was muggy and hot inside too. I started feeling really dizzy and it was the closest I have ever been to passing out. When Emily said she saw my eyes roll into the back of me head she grabbed me and we happened to stop and we got off and got onto the next car down...the women only car. Ah this was heavenly and I suddenly felt all better. It was not crowded and the fans worked and they all smelled better.
Todays thunderstorm has been outrageous!!!! I have never seen so much lightning and heard continuous thunder like this. I mean it looked liek someone was just taking picture afetr picture with a bright flash and no letting up.
Our hotel is our of power again right now. Today is our day to finish packing and get ready for tonight so we are hoping it comes back on. Tonight we are going out to dinner with our Spanish and Japanese friends and it is going to be a lot of fun!!!
Tomorrow morning we fly out to Phuket, Thailand and we are stoked. I will write back in a couple days at the most.
Aunt Linda, your comment was so funny. Haha Rocky. I cannot wait to see you for the wedding and eat your biscuts and gravy!! I love you so much!!
I miss you all and will write back soon!!
~Love, Michelle