The Weekend in Rajpur

You may remember that the first weekend I went to church with my friends Achui and Rinwon. This weekend Achui invited me to visit her at her house. She lives in Rajpur which is North of Dehradun. It's kind of like a suburb. But it's higher up so it's greener, cooler, cleaner, and it smells better.

I took the Vikram. All by myself.


I was a little nervous to flag one down. I wasn't sure that they would stop for me. But after one false start I boarded the little blue number five that took me to Astley Hall. Then I called Achui who walked me through where to find the number one Vikram that would take me the rest of the way to Rajpur.



This is the Vikram/Bus stand at the bottom of the road that leads into Rajpur. It was kind of rainy but at least it was cool clean air.



I should have taken a picture of the hill because you can't see it in this picture and it is a HIKE. Like - seriously steep.

 But the climb is definitely worth it. The higher you go, the better the view.

She's housesitting for a couple named Anne and Rob from the UK. This is the view from their living room.

They come back next week so she's currently trying to find a new place to live. I think she will miss the view the most.

Achui's friend Goldy is working on an MSW. She was almost done with her forty page thesis when a computer virus struck. I spent a good three hours trying to get it back but when that didn't work, I started helping her to rewrite it. It's a ton of work and we ended up spending much of Saturday working on it. She's also helping me with my Hindi.

Achui and me

It was so late they invited me to spend the night. So I did and the next morning I took a bus back down the mountain.

We haven't finished the paper yet, but it's due on Saturday so I'm going to try to find time this week to help Goldy again. Today was her birthday and she graciously invited me to her house for the party. I'll post about that later. I think we may try to work more on her paper tomorrow in between my classes.