bad times...

So many due to my own stupid fault i lost my new fancy phone somewhere on the mountain...and some lucky person happened across it and decided that they would like a new android and kept it for themselves. unfortunately this means i have lost all the numbers of people i have met just far which couldn't have come at a worse time cos now is when i need them! Anyways on the bright side I had an opportunity to experience the Indian judicial system at great length...very educational. This entailed me being taken from police station to lawyer and a few strange places in between standing like a mug whilst everybody spoke in Hindi and then I was told to "come". I had to write a letter certifying that I had lost my phone, then I had to pay a lawyer to certify that I had certified I'd lost my phone to then' pay' the police to write report saying I'd lost my phone. the things i learned during this experience: it matters when you've lost your phone if you are single and thus who your father is, i don't know why this has any baring on how i managed to lose my phone but the fact i'm daughter of Gerart lynch...(yes this is how the lawyer spelt your name on the official legal document dad) seems to affect the manner in which i lost the phone. another important lesson...the police are corrupt and all they seem to do is stamp letters for money. oh and also apparently you must cancel your phone not because the thief in question maybe downloading dirty pictures onto your stolen phone at your expense but because they often get up to terrorist activity under you name???i think this is where education ends. getting a new phone was an experience in itself that required 3 forms of id, again my father's name and a passport sized photograph...perhaps this lengthy process is to deter the terrorists?
sorry rant over moving on...I'm leaving Mussoorie on sunday and going back down to Delhi and around for the next week...i'm sad to be leaving here and scared of the great unknown of the next part of my trip but i'm really excited! I'll let you know how it all goes...until then x