Car sick in Chennai

So today I started my day off skyping my parents. It was good to catch up and talk to them again! It was also nice to hear that so many people are reading my blog and following in my experiences and going on the journey with me!
Today was a jam packed day but it was a very good day as it was a lot of variety in the things we did. We started the day by going on a long car ride into the city of Chennai. As the title suggests I did get a little car sick but all was well. The traffic here is just more stop and go then rush hour traffic is in the cities and riding in the back of a van didn't help. Once getting to our first location, a film school it was a lot better. This film academy was the Indian comparison if disneyworld or Disneyland. The founder of the school led us around and was very interesting and a good speaker. Some quick knowledge he gave us was that in one year India produces 1,000 some feature films in comparison to the 237 feature films the U.S. does. As well, it takes them 1.8 billion dollars to produce these, which that same amount of money would only produce 17 American feature films. It was really amazing to see the old cameras they've used and his ideas for future films he would like to create!
After this stop, we traveled to a music conservatory. This place waste favorite of many of us as it allowed us to listen to some of the most amazing music by kids our age or younger! This school was founded by the producer of Slumdog millionaire and was continuing to produce future artists of the same talent. We listened to some of the most talented pianists I've ever heard. They had also only been learning for only of few months. The quality of music they provided us with was simply amazing.
After this we traveled to a beautiful cathedral. This place was home to the tomb of St. Thomas. It was wonderful to be back at a Catholic Church and see all the Indians there. There was a service going on but it was in Tamil so a little hard to understand. This place was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1986. It was also home to a relic of St. Thomas. This place it one of three churches in the whole world that is built over the tomb of an apostle of Jesus Christ. Only St. Peter's basilica and Santiago de compostgia in Spain are the other two.
Next we went to a dance performance by a professional Indian dancer. This was a lovely performance as we were given a visual to the music we've been listening to. It was interesting as we were able to follow the story line although we couldn't understand the language the music was being sung. The makeup was a lot but it provided a good asset to her facial expressions. Overall thought today was a busy but good day!

Here is the film guy, the whole group and the musicians, the musicians and I ( the youngest one is 6 years old from Singapore), the cathedral, the dancer.