So here I am, halfway through my time in Delhi.

What do I miss from home?

The spinach and steak salad at Murphys. Driving to my friend’s house, even after dark. Drinking tap water. Reliable sidewalks.

What will I miss come December?

All the new wonderful people I’ve met. Getting cheap transportation anywhere to see unique places. The garlic naan. Bollywood music.

Toiletries Recap
How long this stuff lasted comparatively, graphed up my bathroom wall
Legend: starting from the second tile up, a tile = a month

The Knock-on-Wood Department presents: bugs. Although I keep expecting big, nasty bugs to show up in my apartment, I haven’t seen too much yet, especially as compared to the giant spiders, beetles, and poisonous centipedes I shared my house with in rural Japan. The biggest ones I’ve spotted have been bigger than flies, but smaller than wasps and easily catchable with a tissue, which is one of my main Criteria for Bug Inconvenience.

(Lizards don’t count.)

I suspect the two main reasons I have not seen much is because 1. it is not humid year-round here and 2. my apartment complex applies pesticide. Being pretty high up may help as well.

I still have purchased bug spray with a picture of a cockroach on it. Just in case…

What is this thing, anyway?