Mumbai, On The Way of Jogging

In the morning, I jog around Sampada station in Navi Mumbai. I guess you don't know Sampada station; let me explain, Sampada station is a just local train station which it takes 10 minutes
from my apartment. Why I can keep this jogging practice, though I'd never continued in this habit, is maybe because just I am free. Other reason is that the view on the way of jogging is quite interesting.

Some delivery men are gathering at the entrance of our apartment when I go out the gate. they have packs of milk or breads. One day I got one milk man and asked him to deliver milks to my room, but he said,"Oh, I'm too busy, you can take it", he put one pack of milk on my hand and troted off. Milks are packed in thin prastic bag like refilling liquid soaps; It's hard to hold. So I was afraid to break the bag that I held the milk bag with both of palms like bringing jellyfish to my room.

At 6: 30AM, chai house has already opened, and commuters or walkers are sitting and taking something. There are many peolple taking a walk in this town, and their walking style is very calmly. That looks not like body exersises, but mental trainings. They intend body exsersize, and just I can't percept like that? Or maybe "Calm Walking Exersise" is popular for senior pepole in India, now, I guess.

A newspaper shopper is unfolding a choth and placing the today's newspapers on it. He makes empty place for newspapers which isn't delivered. a shoes fixer has also started his business. Their targets are businessperson on the way to their offices. Here is changed into the fluits/vegitables market in the evening targeting people who is on the way to their homes, and I think, oh they share the place well, and run through.

The market in the morning lose the sparkle, and there are few people. vegitables shoppers sleep on a cart. While I wondered if they were bitten by mosquitos, one man slept wrapped with a mosquito net. That's it. Yes, I know it's cooler to sleep outside rather than inside except mosquitos. Now I remember, track drivers sleep on their track's roof at night, parking on a side of a road. I'm sure, they will die when they will roll over.

Children like junior high school studens stand on a side walk. They seem to waiting a school bus. There is a small girl's high school and it shows a picture gathering girls in school uniforms in front of the gate. However at this timing I've never seen school children in the school.

In a sports park, which takes 5 minutes from the station, many people gather in the early morning, and various exersises are showed. One is a yoga lesson under the blue sky, a instructor sits in front of his students, and about 30 middle age people practice how to breath, or up and down their legs. Other one is like "Shouting Lesson"; many guys shake their arms and shout something together. Last one is a common exersise lesson, that seems to be opened by housewives. In addition, walking couples, mom and son who helping his mom to walk, a young man who practices bridge on a bench, people who do mental trainings, and puppies which fight each other.

Dogs are one of problems, it is the timing of their breakfast so that dogs are very irritable in the morning. In the daytime, they are too calm, or almost die, but in the morning they often fight each other; if you pass beside them as though unconsciously, you may get them angry and are chased by them. When it happen, I run away saying "I'm sorry, this is my fault...", and after that I feel poor. Sometimes someone helps me hitting dogs with a bar and shout them.

Anyway, like this, jugging in the morning in Navi Mumbai, is quite interesting.