Diary of SpanishI was Born in Latin America, My Friends are in Europe and I'm Living In India… My Daily Life… My Friends… My Diary

Having domestic help back at home is something usual. You pay the maid for either staying the whole day at your house or for live-in and perform all the chores required at home. Of course in India things are quite different. Having maids is also very common but they only perform specific tasks and nothing more. Like the one that cleans the floor will not cook the food and so on.

The average rate they charge only covers around an hour of work daily and they work in 4 to 5 homes everyday. Don’t take me wrong, I know their work is hard but…

When searching for a maid, my husband is the one who talks to them at first. We have done our own research with the neighbors and we know the rates and what kind of work they do for that money. They come home and agree on a rate, but as soon as they interact with me and they figure out that I’m not Indian they just wanna charge me much more than what they normally charge. They start to ask for an increment on their salary every month. For some strange reason they think they can overcharge me and that I will actually accept that. But I don’t. So the problem starts there. Read More…

I had Jaipur on my mind since a very long time. Jaipur is located in the Indian State of Rajasthan, having beautiful architecture, handicrafts, elephants, camels… I had to see this.

So I booked my train ticket and decided to just go and explore the city. The AC train was quite comfortable and also almost empty. I think my coach just had around 6 people in total. I had it all on my own! I reached Jaipur at around 11 a.m. and took a taxi to my hotel. The location was quite good and the doorman was dressed with the typical rajasthani clothes and had a very big moustache. The room was nice and neat, just royal.

That day I wandered around the city. Suddenly I saw the beautiful Palace of Winds or Hawa Mahal. It was stunning. Just imagine the queens of the 19th century going there to watch the city life without being noticed. And the sun light reflecting directly on the sandstone makes it look impressive.

Later on I saw the Jal Mahal or Water Palace which is curiously a five storey palace but having four of them actually under water when the lake is full and therefore gives you the impression of only being a 1 storey building with a terrace.

The old Jaipur is full of small shops in the main road. I put my eye on many things I wanted to buy. But that I was planning to do later.

In the evening I had dinner at a hotel with a friend and her girlfriends. God, they talked a lot… and also very loud! I didn’t know that a bunch of Indian women together could be so noisy! But no doubt they were very friendly.

Next day the plan was done, we were going to the Amber Fort. It was a hot day outside. When reaching I saw a group of elephants… there was an elephant ride to the top! and of course I wanted to take it. My friend agreed.

While we were walking towards the elephants a bunch of vendors approached us offering from small handicrafts to paintings and the things were nice really but I was just not planning to buy anything at that point.

But suddenly a man came trying to convince us to take the elephant ride and he was talking a lot. I think part of his strategy is to really convince you to take the ride, I mean that’s his job after all. He looked at me.

- You’re so beautiful – he said to me with a big smile. Read More…

I just saw the documentary of the BBC called Secret Lives “Middle East Taboos” with the title Operation Virginity. I guess you can understand with the title of the program what was it all about. The women which were shown in the documentary confessed that they lost their virginity at the age of 14-16. Wow can you imagine, I thought it was only the west which was labeled the early age virginity looser but after watching the program I think it’s same all across the world but it’s just that it’s secretly guarded by the society.

Some of the women who lost their virginity went to Paris to repair and reconstruct their hymen which was very surprising because they said they were so scared that if their family knew about it they will certainly kill them in the name of honor and even if their family didn’t kill them, they will never get marry as the society accept the sexual experience of men but they can’t accept a woman to have it. Read More…