hi

hi,
got inspired. have stored up enough semi-interesting things to warrant a report on them.
10 days. 10 day until i leave rishikesh and go to dharamsala in the mountains, to spend my last week before coming home.
it is really heating up in rishikesh. the mornings and evenings are so beautiful right now, as the temperature is just perfect. but the afternoons are starting to get such that wearing the long sleeves and head scarf that i usually don is becoming a tad uncomfortable. get ready to sweat.

so i am beginning to tie up some last minute details. getting my gift shopping done, pay my rent, things fixed, things packed off in mail to myself, things i don't want to lug home in my suitcase.

tomorrow i will go with a woman i met whose from Norway up to a temple in the hills here. we will go by car and return on foot. she said it takes 4 hours to walk back down to rishikesh and we will take our breakfast with us because we will leave at 5am so that we can be at the top to watch the sunrise over the Himalayas. Totally sounds like something I'd be interested in and I was sold on the idea the moment she suggested it. So i made a new friend. Her name is Marielle and she is a bit older than me and absolutely delightful. quite looking forward.

though i am truly savouring my last few days here in rishi, i am excited about the return home, as usual. Can't wait to see my mom, my dad, my dog, my friends....even my brother will be a sight for sore eyes (you'd think the 17 years difference between us would eliminate the sibling rivalry but somehow it still exists, haha).

it is just always so fun, that re-entry period, when everything is so new and shiny in canada and fun.
its sort of like that nice feeling i get when my plane touches down in india and i get through the airport and out the doors and take my first breath of indian air....so intoxicating. (or is that burning plastic, hahah). No, i joke.
Something in those first few breaths tastes like i am home again and parts of my body relax that i didn't even know i was holding.

and canada, well canada is like the land of milk and honey. after the austerity of india, the return to canada always brings unexpected luxuries and comforts that i had forgotten all about, like... washing machines and... air conditioning and uninterrupted power and internet.
i wonder if i go back and forth between india and canada enough times if this awe and appreciation will lessen.

hmmm,
so lets see,
what else.
.......mmmmm.....
ya, nothing else.
so not as exciting as i thought.
hahaha.
that's life.
love to all
ang