Potato Chips

I have found potato chips. It is wonderful! Something here, which is exactly the same at home. It makes me quite happy. My host family finds it funny that I like the chips so much. They are buying them for me and giving me some to keep in my room. It is funny. But really, it is quite nice having something familiar here.
Everything is so different. The traffic is intense. There are lanes painted but nobody uses them. There are no stop signs, traffic lights, cross walks, speed limits, or seat belts. I can't tell you how many times already I've reached for a seat belt when I sit down only to find nothing there. There are seat belts in the front seats but there might as well not be, since no one uses them. They drive on the opposite side of the road which is very disorienting for me. I almost got hit (again) yesterday because of it. I was crossing the street with the group and I guess we were all looking the wrong way because we had to scramble back to the side of the road or get hit by a bright yellow auto rickshaw.
The money is quite different too. About forty Indian Rupees equals one American Dollar. But you can but things that would cost a dollar in the USA for about five rupees here. I was with my host mother and she was buying some food that would be about fifteen to twenty dollars in the USA but it was about forty rupees here. Only one dollar! I understand now why SYA only told us to bring one hundred and fifty in cash, otherwise you would have a fortune in rupees!
I went to the fish market today with my host father and his friends. It was very interesting. I watched a sting ray being cut apart. Something I doubt many people in the USA have seen. It was... interesting. I am constantly stared at. It makes me feel really out of place. In the part of India where I am foreigners are not common. So I am quite the attraction. I am also still wearing my western clothes. I haven't seen one Indian woman here not wearing native clothing. So I think I shall buy some. That may help me stick out less. And maybe if I get a tan as well... Haha.
It really is quite different here. And different in ways I wasn't even expecting. I mean, I did expect it would be different. But not in some of the ways I have found. But then again there are also many things that are the same, like potato chips.
Much Love,
~ Jenna