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Home again! It feels a wee bit like I've just woken from a very long vivid dream, it's so surreal. I've fallen back into my home routine so easily it feels like I never left. India was so completely different it's hard to fit the two together somehow. I sometimes feel like pinching myself. Maybe I should nip back and check it's still there.
The journey home was quite enjoyable as we had quite tight connections and there was a high possibility it might all go squwank but it all flowed smoothly :-)
India was incredible! I really needed a year there but 15 weeks were still long enough to give me the experience I was hoping for. Looking back, the main things I feel I've learnt are more patience and a kind of realisation that not everything is a simple as it seems. It's very naïve to think that we can come into a country like India with all our great western ideals and make it better. They have a strong culture and although some of it might not be right we still don't have the right to destroy it. It a very complex issue and it's given me lots to think about.
Reading over my blog entries again I noticed, as well as the many typing errors, the amount of things we've experienced and achieved. I feel so thankful for all those great opportunities especially the fact that I had such great travelling companions. I think they taught me as much as the country did!
Cait if it weren't for you I'm not sure I'd even have gone. Thanks for taking on the challenge of going with a complete stranger and making the most of it :-) I wish you luck with your current projects writing business plans for Students for a free Tibet and working as a teacher in the slum schools. I half wish I was there with you although I did enjoy Christmas and I am looking forward to New Year. It was great getting to know you through the tough times and the amazing ones and I look forward to our reunion and the Private Practice box set!
Sean all I can say is Thank You! I can't think of anybody who would have been more perfect to travel with. You drove me crazy half the time and the other half you made me laugh and all the time you were there for me. I miss you a lot at the moment. It's weird spending 23/7 (He usually escaped for about an hour a day) with someone for over 3 months and then not seeing them. Especially as we were married a lot of the time:-P It's like going through a mini divorce! Ok maybe not quite that dramatic.
Now I am home with my family, cat and dog as well as a beautiful Christmas tree. It's taken a few days to settle back in. It's quite a reverse culture shock especially when you come straight into Christmas. I think the weirdest thing so far has been brushing my teeth with tap water. Now I've managed to unpack and repack and am ready to head to Edinburgh tomorrow. As I haven't heard from People Tree I don't know what I'll be doing next. My plans go as far as the 5th when I'll be getting a train back home but after that I don't know. So many options! Feels a bit like being in India again… :-)
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