Okay so i couldn't wait until early next week to write another post.
By this time tomorrow I will be sometime over the Atlantic Ocean headed for Brussels, Belgium. . . hopefully fully prepared for my stay in Nepal and travels in India. Today I completed my medicine cabinet (aka plastic bag) . . . that now includes Immodium, Pepto, Cipro, azithromycin, acidophilus pills, Malaria prophylaxis pills, and some cold medicine (please don't comment that I've forgotten something because it's too late and i don't want to hear it :)). My poor stomach is about to meet some friend's it never thought it would encounter, and hopefully it will fair well!
The owner of the orphanage, Rajendra, is supposedly picking me up at the airport in Kathmandu on Sunday morning (Saturday night for all of you, 11 hour time difference), although at this point I have no phone number for him to contact in case my flights are delayed . . . yay for trust in others!
Just checked the weather for the THREE destinations I will be flying into, and all seem clear and wonderful, so assuming all goes well I should have a relatively painless 28 hour travel experience. I am a bit worried about my overnight stay from 10PM to 8AM in India's New Delhi airport. What the hell am I going to do? Where am I going to pass out? Give yourself a mental picture of me sleeping in a corner of of the New Delhi airport on top of all of my bags so no one could loot anything out of them! Oh well, look forward to hearing what I ended up doing in the New Delhi airport, as it is bound to be a good story with 10 hours to spare.
Today I finished lesson three of unit one of Rosetta Stone for Hindi, which technically is NOT the language of Nepal, but the language of India . . . Oh well hopefully it will do me some good over there. I will probably royally embarrass myself because although I have a decent amount of verbs and nouns under my belt, I am still incredibly shaky with conjugating masculine and feminine tenses, as evidenced by my recent addressing of an Indian man as a woman when trying to ask "what's up"? Oh well.
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Although this post didn't have much to do with your last supper, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about your prep for India... Like I told you over the phone, I will be checking nightly to keep up with you!
ReplyDeleteBen i just spoke to you!! Getting ready to board the plane!! Safe trip!!!!!! Miss Ya loads!! MOM and DAD
ReplyDeletei can't believe you needed to pack your own antibiotics...haha you truly are going to the end of the world. i miss you already my love and i hope you are currently traveling well!!!!
ReplyDeletei am so fascinated already with the comments you have made for the past few days. sounds like you have had more new experiences in your life just getting to nepal. and the best is yet to come. can't wait to read more; stay well and stay safe. cousin karen
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