There were no classes today, which was as much of a surprise to me as the boys, and they were suddenly told they were to go and watch the local sports event in the village. When there, it turned out to be rather camel orientated. Basically there was a camel art exhibition. The local men decoratively shaved their camels, paraded them in front of the judges and made them do funny stuff like dancing. While this was happening the crowd were closing in more and more round the staging area, and all craning for view. I exited the crowd and then found myself offered a camel ride. Whats more exciting than a camel? A white person on a camel. The crowd quite quickly lost interest in the stage and turned round to swarm round me. I was paraded through the judging area, and there was a Hindi announcement in the middle of which I could pick out the word "Scotland."
After that there was an old man race. There were men with stunning beards running, who had probably come out of meditation in caves specially for the event. The winner was duly swarmed and actually lifted up like a champion above everyones heads, before celebrating by doing cartwheels.
Lots of fun.
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