David's India blog - Davids Geburtstag

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Davids Geburtstag
7th Feb

David still feels really weak. He spent his birthday in the bed. I’ve found a pharmacy and I got some pills, something like antibiotics, besides that also some apples and apple juice from the grocery store, something that David really misses, just like Yoghurt, bread and cheese. But I couldn’t find those things.
At morning visited Klaus Sanjey, our driver for the tour to Hampi. He explains us his plans for us and describes us all the various stops, we want to visit. Hotel room, tickets, permits – he manages all of that. The whole trip will last 10 days and cost David and me about 800 Euro.
I’ve found launderette in town. If someone owns one washing-machine here, he can open
public launderette. You iron with a wooden iron-machine from 1925. It weighs 6 kg. I brough the owner our clothes in a yellow bag and he will wash them and iron them. Hopefully. David gets Birthday wishes from everywhere. But he was most surprised and touched by Santosch, who doesn’t own anything, but comes to see how David feels and gives him a T-Shirt Klaus threw a birthday party for Jan and David in one restaurant. There are more and more guests after six o’clock. Anthony, Klaus’ Indian ward with his friends, Sanjey, our driver with his family, Gopi and some others, who we can’t classify yet, there’s about 20 of us. We have a really sweet cake as a appetizer and then really spicy buffet.

Slowly there are discussions developing. Here is for example Malesh, Indian director, who records American movies at the moment, or Mahesh’ friend, musician, who produces sound-effects for movies. I meet Richard, American form Chicago, who couch-surfs through India with his girlfriend for 2 months and who wants to travel to Andamans. They are here with Malesh. I ask them, what they do. They own a hostel in Jacobsweg (They know Hape Kerkeling only from his book). David brought his notebook to show the movie-people some of his stuff. They seem really interested in it, and suggest a co-operation. We’ll see. The whole evening goes by very relaxed and harmoniously and round 9 PM David says good bye, and goes to bed again. I think we’ll start with antibiotics tomorrow morning.

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