Trip to Kallipatti - Samyu's House!

Now about Kallipatti… Since I am from a village myself, I thought I knew what to expect. But I was not prepared for the primitiveness and beauty of the village. Most of the roads to the place have the greenest paddy fields on both sides and nearly-full river flowing by. And Samyu’s house is a mini palace. It is like a Zamindar’s house you’d see in any tamil movie…and her dad is really (I mean actually) the Chinna Gounder there. Jaime, Parko, Karpi, Vaishnavi (Parko’s Sis), Samyu and I landed there close to lunchtime. Parko and Karpi had to leave early, before which we spent time looking at photos and running around the house and of course yak-yakking. Once they left, Jaime, Samyu and I had lunch and decided to rest for sometime…actually only Jaime slept. Samyu and I were lying in bed talking. In the evening, we had a lot of village activities lined up for us. Jaime got to feed grass to some calves. We finally named them Rachel, Ross and Monica (after going through Paula, Elizabeth, Henry, Sakthi, Lakshmi and another few names) We also saw them milking a cow. We had a walk in the paddy fields and that was great…it is really nice when you can see just green all around you. We had lots of tender coconut to eat and drink. We visited a temple built by Samyu’s fore fathers. And then our driver, Samba was ready with the bullock cart. Samyu’s grandfather owns a theatre and we went there in the bullock cart. Its funny…when you want to honk the horn, you’ll have to scream it out yourself. Jaime did the job well, be screaming “vali vali” all the way. At the theatre, we missed selling tickets ourselves…we only managed to give it to one small little girl, who was probably scared of us. We got to see the movie cabin…saw the olden day’s slide advertisements and the manual rewinding of reels etc. and we watched the movie for fifteen minutes…it was a Vijaykanth film…It was a nice experience…not totally new to me, but must have been out of the world for Jaime. Samyu’s mom was a sweetheart and accompanied us everywhere. We also went to Samyu’s cousin’s house and got to see the deer they had in the temple. Once we got back home, we got into the fancy dress act….Yes! We dressed Jaime in a half saree and decked her up with Samyu’s jewellery. It looked nice…. You guys can get to comment once Samyu is kind enough to send the pics in. After dinner, we went back to catching up of gossip (lol). We were all very sleepy but kept talking and talking…you know how it is…you say good night, then decide you want to say something more and you continue….and then you say good night again…. Anyway, in the morning, we had breakfast, left to Erode, put J on her train and then Samyu put me on a bus….and I was on my way back home. I cant think of anything else…I talk of nothing else with my mom…and I’ve called a couple of those who didn’t turn up for the wedding…and filled them with the news…. So, that’s the story of my Kallipatti trip.