After basically hiding in the house for the last two days it is time to venture out on my own! I made a profile on couch surfing and joined the Jaipur group. I received several emails within a couple hours asking to take me out to coffee and show me around the city. I took up the offer of Vikram, a 33 year old business many living in Jaipur. He has been doing couch surfing for quite a while and has over 40 positive references, many from single women. Ideally I wish I could be bringing someone else on this venture but no one else is able to go with me, so I will be heading out on my own. Because he has so many good reviews over a long period of time I believe that I can trust him. Originally I proposed him coming to pick me up at the house, but he said it would be too suggestive and that we should meet in the main city in a public place, so I seem to be in good hands.
The plan is to meet at Mall 21, where he will pick me up in his large blue car and then he will show me around the city for the next few hours, and then I'll be coming back around 5pm to go shopping with the two indian girls who live above me at the house. I will be leaving in a couple hours and should return by 5pm. I'll send out a blogpost after that to let everyone know that I am safe. The two difficult things about this will be getting a rickshaw that won't charge me more than 100 rupees and the original meeting up.
I'll post again soon!
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