(pictured to left is what the buses we normally take look like) How Delhi buses work is, you get on, tell the conductor where your stop is, and pay the amount that corresponds with the stop. The conductor came up to us, but before making us pay, he made us move to the front. Because "he's the conductor, and he says we need to sit up front." Aka because we were women. It is challenging to adjust to a culture and society where the womens role is much different than I am used to. I'm still not sure how to be a part of it all. Anyways, our goal was go to go Shahpur Jat, which we believed to be a park. We found the general neighborhood, but kept getting pointed in a circle when we asked people where it was. There was no park in any of the areas we were pointed. But, we found this really cool handicraft store that had a lot of cool traditional Indian crafts. So success. And we found a small green block with pigs in it. So that's always nice.
We then hopped a bus back towards our house to visit a yoga studio we were interested in. We just picked a bus that was going in the right direction because we didn't know what number we needed. At this point, it was raining quite hard. Luckily, we remembered our umbrellas, which is not always the case. So we saw the studio across the road, but decided to stay on the bus until the next stop so we didn't have to cross the busy intersection in the rain with a bunch of cars/rickshaws/motorcycles/buses. Unfortunately, the bus turned. And went quite a ways down the road. Which wouldn't have been a big deal if it wasn't pouring raining and lightning. So we waded through the rivers that were streets were becoming. By the end, my pants were super wet. We were afraid of being electrocuted, so we found a rickshaw that gave us a decently fair price headed home. By the time we got back the rain had mostly stopped. Oh well! Although we were all soggy, it was a good time. :)
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