Sunday is our day to go as a group into non-rural areas and explore other walks of India. Today we went to see the historical Red Fort and then participated in some market shopping. It was a blast. Once you get pass not getting hit by a car...you are golden. The market is full of everything you can think of: Jewelry, clothing, antiques, crafts, food, furniture, instruments, toys, shoes, and other random things. They can tell you are American so they try to advertise all of their stuff to you using really corny, cliche advertising lines. When you touch or look at one particular thing they will offer a price to you....you then cut it about 50 percent(depending on what you are buying) and see their reaction. They will first be like "No! are you crazy?! This is one of a kind!" and then you look at them like they are more crazy and begin to walk off....their response will then be like, "Ok! Ok! 600 rupees it is sir!" I like shopping a lot here. It is a great time talking with the sellers...humerous and very interesting.
This recap video was shot on a FLIP video camera. I hope to put up some quick shot previews from the HD cameras from filming in Notki some time in the near future.
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That was awesome footage of the market shopping. I'm sure they love seeing Americans go through there. Who's your friend on the video? I laughed at the image of you negotiating with the locals. I could see you just staring them down to intimidate them haha. Did you buy anything? It sounds like they play my kind of music. Anything with a synthesizer and a sexual innuendo gets my attention. Hope you're having a badass time.
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Haha my friend is called Arjun Sing (Call him Sing is King though because it is a popular Indian song). He is the coolest person alive. I bought a lot of stuff man. Some jewelry for some ladies, some crazy statues of gods I will use as paper weights, and some stuff for my family. I still have more shopping to do. And yes, the stare works wonders.
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