Thefts and Disease

Not the most joyous of titles I know, but this is India. This time I'm not the one to have been robbed, the unlucky guys this time were the two Jonas (nicknames Billy and Salle) and Daniel who woke up one morning to find that someone had snuck into their room and stolen: two mobile phones, one camera, one ipod and quite a few thousand rupees. Very annoying and it feels even more uncomfortable to know how professional these guys were managing to get with them the chargers for all electronics despite being in different cases and parts of the room. Anyway I went one of the guys to the police station, were we basically just waited and waited whilst identical officers in uniform (which i think includes a big black mustache) walked in circles around us until eventually (aka 3 hours) we got the ONE signature they needed and left. The morning after I managed to pick up my 39.6 degree fever again, which I have missed o so much, and it chose a great day to show up on Isabelle's birthday which Miriam and I had planned for quite some time. I'm not sure exactly how the day turned out as I was in bed for most of it, but I think it all went down very well. The surprise-day was spent poolside in a luxury hotel and then we had a nice dinner and drinks in the cocktail lounge, before settling in our Air conditioned rooms with thick duvets and television. It's strange the luxuries you can forget, just things you take for granted like warm water and electricity without power cuts feel topnotch when in India. The illness seems to have settled now but I know how devious he can be, so I'm taking it a tad more relaxed at the moment. Varkala otherwise is treating us well, relaxing on the beach, eating good food (most of the time) and beer or as they call it here "Pop Juice" served in teacups as the alcohol law in Kerala is quite strict (allthough the police know exactly what's going on and quite obviously take loads of money under the table.) Soon though I think we have to head over to another country which is sad as we haven't seen everything we want to see in India yet and also to say farewell to everyone, but you can always come back to India and practically everyone we've met are swedish so they won't be hard to keep in touch with either. More news when we know what's actually happening to us...