It's nearly midnight, and I just got home from celebrating Diwali at the Juhu Beach Street Shelter. The boys decorated the place with lights and created floor decorations made of colored sand--it looked so festive! The head of the YMCA, as well as others, were there and brought lots of food and treats for us all. The evening was topped off with games like put the Bollywood-star puzzle together and escape the bomb blast, which entails running in a circle until the music stops
and you land in one of four cities. Your team is out if you land in the city where the bomb blast went off that time.
Speaking of blasts, the other tradition on Diwali is to set off firecrackers. They are still going off outside my window right now! It was complete mayhem, and I don't know how everyone escaped
without injury. Hopefully the pictures will give you a feel for how many were going off at once.
It's nearly midnight, and I just got home from celebrating Diwali at the Juhu Beach Street Shelter. The boys decorated the place with lights and created floor decorations made of colored sand--it looked so festive! The head of the YMCA, as well as others, were there and brought lots of food and treats for us all. The evening was topped off with games like put the Bollywood-star puzzle together and escape the bomb blast, which entails running in a circle until the music stops and you land in one of four cities. Your team is out if you land in the city where the bomb blast went off that time. 
2 comments:
Cool! I heard a story about Diwali on NPR this morning and hoped I'd find your first person account here.
It's sort of sad that they actually have a game "escape the bomb blast".
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