Today, I am also leaving Lucknow and heading to Delhi. I'll stop there for a day or two and then head to the mountains in a valient attempt to escape the heat and find some quiet. I amvery excited.
Yesterday, my roommate (who is wonderful but is leaving *sob*) and I went to Hazrat Ganj (a shopping district in Lucknow) and got mendi. I took a picture and put it here for you to see. The man who did it was extremely fast and drew the designs in henna on my hands with a tool that looked like a cake decorator. Getting mendi on both hands cost less than a dollar. Amazing.
Afterwards, I couldn't touch anything for 5 hours. I didn't know about the extremely long waiting period after the design and thought it would only be an hour. This misunderstanding caused a little confusion, as I got the mendi just before dinner (which is at 8:30pm) and was quite hungry. My host-mom, being the nicest woman ever, actually fed my roommate and I dinner. We then sat and chatted until it was time to rub the henna off our hands. A very fun night.
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