Uh-oh!!!

I'm scared. Tomorrow is the beginning of a two day holy festival that happens across the entire country. All I really know about this festival is that it consists of throwing paint at random people in the streets. I also heard that by day two people can get really drunk and high on bhang lassi's (special yogurt drinks mixed with cannabis). The other thing I know about this festival is that it's holy, well obviously! The main difference with this holy festival, among the parade of millions of other random holy festivals in this country, is that it is actually called 'Holi'. I just learned this. Before I was confused when I tried to ask the Indian people what was going on tomorrow and they would just reply "holy, it's a holy festival". I guess this one is especially holy for some reason. This is a little ironic as I've heard (as I just mentioned) that people can get pretty wasted in the streets during these two days. And Rishikesh is a holy town to begin. Both the eating of meat and drinking of alchohol is prohibited in this town.

So, I'm not sure what I'm going to do as of tomorrow. The guy I just spoke with at the jewelry shop said that my hair will be multi-colored for the next few months after this festival. I'm not sure whether to brave the madness, or to just stay in and hibernate. Really, I think there's no way of getting out of this. I think I will just embrace it; and run whenever I feel it is necessary!

So that's it for now. I will update the blog later when the madness has passed. I'm sure whatever happens it will be fun!