Monday, April 12, 2010

Once upon a time in India...

So while my life and future past the next three weeks is so undetermined, I should be terrified... I am terribly excited for the latter part of this week and then the last week of April through the first few days of May.

We have booked our train tickets to Mumbai, the gateway to India, for Wednesday. Our train comes directly into the station where they filmed the train scenes in Slumdog Millionaire! We don't have our plans set, but we are certain that it is going to be a pretty awesome trip.
We don't have a way to get back yet, but they have these special tickets you can buy two days before the departure date... we are hoping to catch one of those. Otherwise, we'll have to jump a train and hide from the conductor men. We've done it before, so it shouldn't be a problem, it's just a much longer trip.
And then! Then! Then!
We are flying to Calcutta to spend a week visiting Mother Teresa's Missions of Charity and then grabbing another train to Darjeeling and Sikkim to do some trekking in the Himalayas.
Let's just pause a second to think about all of that.
I am going to Mumbai, coming back here to take a few exams, and then flying off to the Himalayas and hanging around the edge of Bangladesh, also known as East Pakistan.
I am currently living a very blessed life.

I am incredibly excited!