A Brief Update

So I have been without internet access for a whole week now. I won't lie to you: it hasn't been a pretty situation. I wish I could say I was one of those people who finds deeper meaning when cut off from all information and communication channels but I am just not. I like email. I like reading the newspaper online five million times a day (London was BOMBED and I read about it first in an actual newspaper. Really.) I have been with my extended family for a week which means that my oolta-poolta (upside-down) Hindi was working non-stop and my thoughts are now in this icky messy mix of Hindi and English. (Also not a pretty situation.) I am not all that good at waking up in the morning and having to immediately start my day in Hindi was unspeakably trying for me. (Doing it with a smile on my face every morning-when-chai-was-brought-in promptly at seven as to not offend anyone in the family was also an experience.)

But there are lots more stories from my last week that I will fill in later. Right now I am sitting in the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, the only female in roomful of men at the internet-cafe-without-any-food-that-exploitatively-charges-$5-an-hour-(or-Rs200) for-one-blessed-hour-of-email-time. As deprived as I am at this point, I happily slapped down my Visa card (it is everywhere I want to be after all) and have spent the last 30 minutes speed-reading-and-writing to you all.

(There is some sort of nationalist India chant happening outside that starts every five minutes or so that is disrupting my concentration so if this doesn't make any sense, I apologize. Why such a strong military presence in the airport, I wonder? Men with machine guns are also slightly concentration disrupting. Chant just started again.)

ACK! Okay, I just looked outside and noticed the security line is beyond long and the entire obviously American family wearing surfer shorts and Hawaiian shirts (I don't get it. This is India, not Bermuda. And really, those outfits are beyond stereotype. You tell me.) hasn't moved in ten minutes. I am going to give up precious minutes here and take my place in line.

Will be back in Boston on the 11th of July (which it already is here in India). Cannot wait to see you all again. Get in touch with me!

Love love love...
(and more updates to follow)