About schoolmates

I’ve just read Siim’s post in wich he describes the behavior of his classmates and realized that I had completely forgotten to do that.I must say that I agree with Siim on the childishness: their behavior would definitely seem childish in Estonia, but as we are in India and I am trying my best to be culturally sensitive, I look past that. Just as Siim’s classmates, some of mine are into porn. They don’t watch it in school as the ones in Amritsar, but they sure do it at home. I know this because a guy offered to lend me a movie and after my investigation it came out that it was a so called “bad movie”. But these screwballs are exeptions (whom I’m trying to keep away from) and in general, the guys are great. Of course everybody asks a lot of questions. Surprisingly, one of the most frequent questions is: “do you have a girlfriend” and it seems to be almost impossible to explain them, why I don’t have a girlfriend, because, as one of my friends explained, Indians think that every western guy has several girlfriends ( a rather odd misconception, I must say). Then there is the uncomfortable question about, how do I like Indian girls. You may ask why is this uncomfortable? Well, you see, I’m a nice guy and I don’t want to insult anybody, but I don’t see any beautiful girls around me (don’t get me wrong, they are nice and friendly, just not beautiful), therefore, I must sneak around this question. I have also read from Siim’s blog that it is compulsory for every school to have morning prayers. Well in my school there are no such things as prayers, so I must disagree with Siim on this. Although, this is probably not Siim’s mistake, but someone who has explained it to him.