To Dehra Dun

I arrived in Dehra Dun in the middle of the night last night. After flying into Delhi late on the 9th, I was greeted by Jamten and another monk Gompo Dorje. Good thing they were there, it was Dewali festival and firecrackers were being set off all over the city. We flew in and you could see them all over. There were cabs everywhere out front and we walked to a car that they hired to drive us to Manjutilla, a Tibetan Colony that was an hour drive outside of Delhi. We drove through small streets where there seemed to be no rules or stop lights. Kids would light off firecrackers right on the road as we were driving by, and we passed what seemed like a Bollywood film, people dancing all dressed up in front of their house. When we reached our destination I was awake since the time change is opposite and I had slept most of the way on the plane. But I did notice some mosquitos in my room, wasn't too excited about that and the small cockroach in my bathroom. We talked for awhile, and then my friends had to go to another hotel since there weren't any more rooms. I of course woke up at 5am, and was thankful that I had brought a mosquito net and slept in my silk sheeting. We met for breakfast, and another Tibetan yogi came along with us. We hired another car to take us on our 6 hour journey to Dehra Dun since he needed to bring along some offerings to HH Chetsang Rinpoche for the teaching. Jigme saw us off with his girlfriend Khandro, and we piled in our car for a ride. Crazy driving here, honking constantly for people to move, not to mention the smell of exhaust pretty much constantly is enough to make anyone feel sick. I was wondering about how many packs of cigarettes I had just smoked from breathing in the fumes. We stopped on the side of the road for lunch at a destination that no one really wanted to eat at, but since our driver was being obstinate about stopping at all for us for some reason we took our chances. I could barely eat and after I did of course I wasn't feeling all that well. I only had Dahl, cooked vegetables and bread. I decided I would "sleep" it off for the rest of the time. We had another 2 hours to go.
I woke up to seeing monkeys running across the road and we finally were making it to some cleaner air up in the mountains. We got to Chang Chub Ling around 7pm, and I met my family and decided to take a shower and go to bed. They offered to make me food, but couldn't stomach it.