God. Just.... God.

Going to India can be great fun! Meeting your cousins, chilling with them, eating tons of sweets till you get bellyaches..... it's fun!

But there's at least a million reasons I HATE India Vacations.

A) The bathrooms
Okay, to start off, the toilets there are really terrible. They are on the floor and you have to crouch down into a really awkward position to 'go'. Plus, no toilet paper, no proper doors or anything, and awfully kept (like, nobody ever cleans them) makes for an awful experience going to the restroom. I am sooooo glad my grandparents have normal toilets in their houses.

B) Language & accent
So everyone has a perfect Indian accent there, and they all speak in my language. I however, speak in English, and do not have that accent, so when I try speaking in my mother tongue in my American accent, everyone laughs and makes fun of me. It's so annoying. Plus, if I want to go and buy ladoos from the shop, I have to speak in my language, and the shopkeeper, who speaks in either the colloquial or ancient version of my language (both which I am not good at), doesn't understand me and I also do not understand what he is saying. So I don't get ladoos, and I love ladoos. It's awful.

C) Pollution, litter
I swear, trash cans were never invented in India, at least. Nobody ever throws their trash in trash cans. They just spit gum into the side of the road, blow into their cigarettes (Which is VERY BAD, btw) and throw them on the road, and put whatever wherever. In fact, there was this baby deer that lived in this empty plot across from my India house. The plot was empty, but everyone put cigarette buds, matches, trash, whatever there, so it caught on fire sometimes. One day, there was this huge fire there, and the deer disappeared completely. It was SO SAD. To this day, I don't know what happened to it, but I hope it survived. Which is why pollution and litter in India suck.

D) Boredom
Well, at least we have something to do in India- hang out with relatives, like cousins, nieces & nephews, and aunts! Right?
Wrong. Dead wrong.
In India, Summer break is from March to May, so when we go for vacations to India, everyone is at school. Boredom comes upon us, and all we can do is watch dumb dubbed TV shows.
Wait. What?!

E) Shop till you drop
I swear, the platforms have an endless supply of stuff. Cause with everyone going shopping the first chance they get, how do they always have so many shoes, so many saris, so many idols? And as long as the platforms have merchandise, we will go there every day in the burning heat.

F) Long flight
The flight is so long, and you get jet lagged right after. The saving grace is the TV and food. Otherwise....... UGH!!! *shudder* It's also easy to fall sick, which is really hard on your parents, especially when they didn't bring along medicine. Whoopsies!

G) Mosquitoes
The mosquitoes are everywhere, I swear! It is impossible to get out without at least 5000000000 bites. I always feel like I have chicken pox with these red bumps all over my body. It's just..... UGH! I bet mosquitoes originated from India!

H) Temperature
It's burning hot in India, not matter the month, date, year, time, century. In fact, 90 degree temperatures are normal for India, I swear. It sucks so much, and we have to go out in this weather too. Winter doesn't exist man! It's just rainy season, hot season, & sticky wet season. Presto!

I) Food
As much as I love Indian food, like Naan and Paneer and stuff, eating it EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. without any other food.... that's a bit much! I want pasta and pizza and stuff, y'know? All they have is those cheap knockoff Starbucks and Pizza Huts. I don't even like those places!!!!

J) Dubbed TV shows
As I said earlier, we have to watch dubbed TV shows. I swear, they dub everything and put it on TV. You can watch Phineas and Ferb in Hindi, Jurassic World (yes, the new one) in Tamil, Arthur in Telugu, Pretty Little Liars in Gujarati, and even Frozen in Malayalam. It's creepy and awful. Like, this is what it's like:

Actual Line | Line in the Language
There's 104 days of summer vacation = Garmi ki chutti ke 104 dina hote haim
You created a monster! = Neengal oru arakkanai uruvakkappattel!
What a wonderful kind of day = E roju oka adbhutamaina rakamaina
Got a secret; can you keep it? = Eka gupta mali; tame tene rakhi sako cho?
Let it go! = atine peakaan anuvadikkuka

Exactly. Just..... 😖

Hence my annoyance with traveling to India.