LIVEALITTLE

I had such mixed emotions on this goodbye-hello day. I'm somewhat glad I had a chat with myself about staying composed and staying content with my future decision rather than let the current situation make a whirlwind of my emotions. George caved me in a little bit when he turned and made his last statement to me of "Hope you find what you are looking for". Gladly that built me up to confront Andras, Csilla, Ajay and Keiko to see me off. I had to seriously force myself to think about the great times we'd had together and how they'd contributed to make me the more satisfied person I am now. I just hope I'd made them love their lives a little more as well. It doesn't seem appropriate to say I am "moving on" because I am not leaving anything behind. Maybe it is more appropriate to say I am "complementing" my existing life...

I had a 48 hour day so it justifies a double entry. Well, maybe it was the Dubai stopover that spoiled me, but Delhi seemed horribly unsanitary and backwards. It's hard to tell if there is ANY sanitary services in the city or if the entire population is plain lazy about disposing of their rubbish properly. People piss and shit on the sidewalks as well. While sitting stationary on the train awaiting imminent departure for Gwalior, the site of the children's hospital, I am smacked with periodic whiffs of human waste. I am later to find out sanitation services definitely DOES NOT exist in Gwalior. Even though we have trash buckets throughout the guesthouse, the housing staff would empty these bins over the wall beyond the house into the vast wasteland behind us. The wall and our higher elevation block the stench below, but it does not block the mosquitos. Apparently a number of volunteers had come down with malaria. Luckily some volunteers had left their extra pill stashes at the guesthouse because the pills from the Gwalior pharmacy don't seem kosher. Despite being labelled as daily pills, the pharmacist vehemently insisted they can ALSO be taken weekly. That's what you'll surely get in India... a different story from every source.

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