All through the Christmas holiday days we heard music pounding from the hill across from our room. Indian pop music at its finest. At first it had us dancing through the rose garden, dancing on our porches, dancing while we slept… eventually we we had the songs memorized to a point of slight annoyance. Through the time of annoyance, I tried to keep in mind that this is rad because anyone who did this in the United States would get shut down immediately.

By the time New Years rolled around, we knew there was some necessary celebrating building up in our young selves like lactic acid in overworked legs. With that common feeling in mind, Seth set out on a trek to find potential locations of potential parties. A hotel just past the rose garden was hosting a Bollywood inspired New Years celebration!

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The sun has set behind the Nilgiri Mountains and Seth hails a rickshaw to the campus. Loading Tanya's bags into the nonexistent trunk. Out the door we rush to see this grand location with a supposed European population. I was curious. Always curious. We pull up and the gate tenant asks if we are going for a night’s stay. Through the open hotel doors we glide. Gleaming with decorations! Silver and gold planets and stars strung from the ceiling around the chandelier. A glass elevator and a nativity scene. The inside was set up to look like the outside of a european town. This is more luxurious than I even imagined it could be. More beautiful than most hotels in the common America. Meeting the people of this New Years night was my new excitement.. and the open bar. Bacardi and litchi juice all night.

Dancing through the night without a single care as to whom may be watching. Just learning the dance moves of present time India. Photojournalists, beatboxers, children, the elderly, a couple from the Netherlands even all gathered there to have a light time and greet the new years with joy in their hearts and progressive aspirations for 2016. Dance moves consisted of shimmy shimmies and traditional dances put to contemporary tunes. Grabbing the earth and praising the sky, grabbing the earth and praising the sky grabbing the earth and praising the sky around the circle we go and go and go the energy reaching a point of infinite unity! Dancing brings us all together as a world.

Dancing was my number one of the evening, but hello, world, I see you now in the form of a buffet! The amount of food boggled my “drunchied” mind to pieces. This was a WORLD buffet. Everything from the east to the west to the north to the south. Veg and non-veg! Warning, this is the kind of place where your food is going to touch. That should be a buffet slogan: Free your Adventurous self, let your food touch!