New Year in Kerala

Well who thought New Year's Eve was going to be like the set of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest with German subtitles. We are staying at the Oceana Cliff....stunning views of the ocean etc, ( Im sure the cliff bit, is because you want to jump off after two days) I hate it! It is full of Germans...and 4 Jews....it is a place for Ayurvedic treatmeants...after last night I have called it Oy-veydic... We decided not to trapse around and find the hippest party..but to stay and have dinner, watch the cabaret and fireworks and then maybe go into town. The four Jews (who were so loud and hysterical) sat at the table dying for some alchohol....we had been promised a cocktail...but the gestapo probably decided that four drunk Jews were worse, than sober ones so we never got them!!!. The food was delicious...but everyone was so sombre and quiet..I suppose they are wiped out from their treatments. Dinner was finished by 9.....so what to do next?. This hysterical magician started to perform.....we could not handle more than 5 minutes and decided to split to North Beach to welcome in the New Year.....I don't know who you have to f..ck to get a drink..but I have never been so sober in my life. We walked to the one 'so called happening place' Rock and Roll Cafe...with foreigners and a bad sound system.. I was mean't to meet Sonny ( my Indian man) there..Fran and Miriam decided to stay for a dance and Naomi and I thought we would walk back it was appalling.. at the hotel the Germans were now dancing, the inmates looked madder than ever...suddenly these Indian drummers arrived....it was almost like spiritual drumming to get you into a frenzy...they move towards you...the Indians go beserk...the Germans get looser, all moving out of time...and Jews look on....may the New Year bring sanity and success....I hope this is not indicitave of what is to come!!!