Monday, March 2, 2009

The cow jumped over the moon...or at least into the street

Two completely unrelated thoughts/comments/observations for today.
First, I don't see, or at least don't notice, the moon that often here, but for the past two night I have had a really good view of it from my living room. It is at the new moon stage but the strange thing is that rather than being a side-ways slice of the moon, like ( It is more like slice of the bottom of the moon, like a smile. I can't help but wonder if this is just the way the moon is in India? Or is it just the moon this month? Or am I imagining things. So, I ask you...what does the moon look like to you right now?
My second comment is about cows. As I've mentioned before they are trying to mooove the cows out of Delhi so I see fewer and fewer. When I got here I usually saw one or more a day, now it is maybe one a week, if not one every two weeks. Although every once in a while I will see a bunch (it makes me happier when I see a bunch together rather than one on its own, I don't want the cows to be lonely). A few weeks ago when I was going to pick up my glasses there was a big cow standing right in the middle of the market. That definitely surprised me, but she just stood there with people shopping all around and didn't move. This morning a cow ran into the street in front of us. She ran right into the middle of a fairly big intersection, literally sort of jogged through with every car just driving around her - amazing that these things don't cause accidents. I was so surprised I said "cow!" and pointed, my driver didn't even flinch, just quickly avoided her...I think he found my concern amusing. I suppose to him it is normal, to me it is just yet another reason why I would never drive here.

1 comment:

Daniel said...

Alison,

You get the same moon we do. New Delhi is at pretty much the same latitude as New Orleans. I don't know enough about the orbit of the moon, but I will look into it. You should also be getting a very good view of Venus in the early evening - it was right next to the smiling moon the other night. One other thing - what is the Hindi word for 'cow?'