hi

well, hello there. Feels like i've been real scarce around these parts. Today i'm just feeling fine again after a couple days of being a bit under the weather. Nothing like being sick to make you feel so alive after its over.

The days are really heating up here. Soon it will be HOT HOT. let's see... what news do i have? i have about a month left here. so many mixed emotions about that. so happy and excited to go home and see family and friends, not so happy about leaving nakul behind. The plan is that he will get a visa and follow me one month later, but we don't know yet if this plan will happen until it does. So many things in India can go sideways and everyone just rolls with the punches. I realize that in Canada, I am used to getting what i want. Indeed, i think it is my god given right. Not so in India.

They are re-painting our house. The painters are there now. The house is new, as i mentioned before, and it was painted a lovely lemon yellow. yes. So... that was fine. But i guess the contractor left one part of the house to paint later, SIX MONTHS LATER, and then they couldn't get the colour to match. They lost the sample or what have you. So, the Dey's don't want their house painted two different shades of lemon yellow and its clearly noticeable, so the contractor has to repaint the whole house from top to bottom to match the new colour. crazy. So now we have painters napping outside our room on the roof on their lunch break. It is quite a sight to see them all laying about. Nakul says they are on their lunch break but i can't shake the feeling that .... well... my foreign cultural voice comes in and i hear myself saying with self-righteousness "in Canada, they would be fired".
I adapt by closing my door and my shades and refusing to hang any underthings out on my clothesline.

Today we had a customer coming looking for a massage. She is looking for a female massage therapist. So I may do some massage, if the demand is there. It is getting busier and busier in Rishikesh so business is bound to pick up. I explained that though i can DO massage, it will not be in the ayurvedic style. Most people wouldn't differentiate here, massage is massage. But i know from my own experience, when a place here says yes, yes they do Swedish massage and then they get you on the table and its really nothing even close to Swedish massage. Anyhow. We'll see what happens. Might be kinda fun.

Anyhow. No real new adventures to report today. Just more of the same. All my love to everyone. kisses.