The next morning (February
25th) we went to the train station and started our trip back
home. Our first train ride took us from
Agra to Vijayawada, and from Vijayawada we hopped onto our last train that took
us to Visakhapatnam for a total 33 hour train ride. For the beginning of our first train ride we
got a whole booth to ourselves which was nice.
To pass some time we started playing some card games. The train ticket guy came in to check our
tickets, and it was funny because after he did, he just sat there with us
making some small talk, and after that he continued to just sit there haha. It got a little awkward so we started playing
our card game again, and then he stayed and watched us play. He said that he liked card games so we tried to
kind of explain the game to him, and he watched us play till he understood how
it worked and then he left! Haha it was
just so random! Anyways the next day we
arrived in the Vijayawada train station.
I was so thrilled, just one more short train ride to go, we were so
close to getting back to our cute green house, and we made it through our whole
weekend trip with nothing bad happening!....I spoke too soon. We had a 3 ½ hour wait in the station till
our next train would get there so we decided to walk around, get something to
eat, and find out which platform we needed to wait on. On our walk across platforms I noticed some
people who were stopped watching two monkeys!
They were tossing them food to eat, and since we had time to kill we
joined the other people to watch the monkeys.
Well once we came over to watch, one of the monkeys came right over to
me and sat right next to my foot and was looking up at me. Then all of a sudden it jumped onto my leg,
grabbed my leg, and bit me! And then
just as fast as it happened, it jumped off and ran away! Well my first reaction was to laugh because
of what had happened. Seriously, of all
the people standing there it decided to come after me! Now I can add a big monkey in India to my
list of random things I’ve been bitten by!
After that I started worrying about the possibility of getting some sort
of infection or even worse, rabies!
Unfortunately we were in a dirty train station, in a city that we couldn’t
even pronounce the name of, so there really wasn’t much we could do about
it. The stupid monkey had managed to
make a small cut so I washed it out as best as I could with hand
sanitizer. Then I called our professor
and asked him if he would call our doctor and see what I should do when we got
back. We enjoyed our last train ride
watching some chick flicks, and then got a ride back to our home here! It was SO wonderful to be back!
Oh and this is what my monkey looked like:
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