Just as a small ancedote to tell you how my life looks here:
Today is our day off, and I usually spend my day off doing one of two things. 1) I go to McLeodganj (over 1 hr bus each way) and shop and eat and eat and socialize with my fellow volunteers and some of their friends who live in that town. 2) I lay low- sleep in, eat breakfast, shower, do laundry, then go down to Sidhbari to the coffee shop and hang out there.
Today I am doing number 2. Funny thing is that I guess my housemates and I pretty much follow the same routine, because two of them left this morning at 930am to go to McLeodgang, and the other two did EXACTLY the same thing as me. We all woke up late, ate, showered, and did laundry in various orders and then in a span of 2 minutes all left our places uncoordinated (but still very coordinated) to go to Sidhbari.
I walked down with Cheryl and Ceinwen was a bit ahead of us. I got a brownie and milkshake (I asked them to combine their offers of banana, coffee, and chocolate shakes and it was pretty great) and we are all sitting at individual tables doing things on our computers. We're the only ones here which makes it sort of funny- it's like we transported our house to here.
So, I'm working on setting up a research project for a course I'm taking next semester. I just ordered a ginger-lemon-honey, which is exactly what it sounds like. They have them all over here and they're so good and always make me feel cozy, especially when I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Tonight I'm going to a wedding which will be nice (of course). In the meantime just hanging out and trying to get some work done
9 days to go.. talked to Ekta (Chloe's good friend from Waterloo, who lives in Delhi) who is having me at her house for 5 days at the beginning of December. She said she has lots to show me so I'm really excited to see it all! It will be great to see Delhi from another perspective, especially of a young person who lives there. Maybe I'll get a sense of what it would be like to live there.
xo
Today is our day off, and I usually spend my day off doing one of two things. 1) I go to McLeodganj (over 1 hr bus each way) and shop and eat and eat and socialize with my fellow volunteers and some of their friends who live in that town. 2) I lay low- sleep in, eat breakfast, shower, do laundry, then go down to Sidhbari to the coffee shop and hang out there.
Today I am doing number 2. Funny thing is that I guess my housemates and I pretty much follow the same routine, because two of them left this morning at 930am to go to McLeodgang, and the other two did EXACTLY the same thing as me. We all woke up late, ate, showered, and did laundry in various orders and then in a span of 2 minutes all left our places uncoordinated (but still very coordinated) to go to Sidhbari.
I walked down with Cheryl and Ceinwen was a bit ahead of us. I got a brownie and milkshake (I asked them to combine their offers of banana, coffee, and chocolate shakes and it was pretty great) and we are all sitting at individual tables doing things on our computers. We're the only ones here which makes it sort of funny- it's like we transported our house to here.
So, I'm working on setting up a research project for a course I'm taking next semester. I just ordered a ginger-lemon-honey, which is exactly what it sounds like. They have them all over here and they're so good and always make me feel cozy, especially when I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Tonight I'm going to a wedding which will be nice (of course). In the meantime just hanging out and trying to get some work done
9 days to go.. talked to Ekta (Chloe's good friend from Waterloo, who lives in Delhi) who is having me at her house for 5 days at the beginning of December. She said she has lots to show me so I'm really excited to see it all! It will be great to see Delhi from another perspective, especially of a young person who lives there. Maybe I'll get a sense of what it would be like to live there.
xo
