Wednesday, June 6, 2007
How quikly things can change. All of a sudden, I'm not in India anymore, and some things seem so different. I feel like I've been all over. I mean I haven't really, but I spent most of the semester in one city, and now since I've left India, I've been to London, Edinburgh, Killarney, Cork, Dublin, and Paris (which is where I currently am). I don't feel like I've felt much reverse culture shock, but maybe that comes later, or maybe just ignored it or something. I admit that I probably got more excited about going in a grocery store than most people do, but I think that's about it. I wonder if I'll feel any culture shock when I go back. It's strange when I think of where everyone is now. That group that was like my surrogate family for a semester is now all over the world. I'm starting to stress out about things that I'd sort of put on hold for a semester (mostly worrying about my last year at Swarthmore and what I'll do after that last year). Traveling with Amy has been really fun though. I think we're a little hampered by our desire not to spend money, but we've found decent cheap food and activities. The sun is finally shining too. It felt like the rain followed us. It would only get to be sunny the day we left a city, but we just got to Paris, and the sun is out, and it's warm (it's been so cold so far. Imagine how shocked I was when I got to London where it was about 50 degrees after leaving Delhi where it was at least 90). I think I finally found a laundromat too. I've been dragging dirty clothes all over in hopes of not needing to hand wash them when I get back to India, but for some reason, I haven't been able to find any laundromats so far, but we passed one today, so maybe I'll get a break from bucket washing my clothes. Although, I'm also tempted to just send my clothes home dirty in the suitcase that I'm sending home with Amy (sorry parents). I've been pretty lazy about taking pictures, so I don't know if I'll have any to post, but maybe I'll take some here in Paris. I should go now though, because we're meeting Monica for dinner, which is so exciting, because I haven't seen Monica in so long. Au revoir.
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