The paper-work is done, the visas arrived and packing started. Or in cases like mine, the last is left in the hopes that maternal instinct will kick in and Mama dearest will show up to make sure I haven't left behind something like my suitcase.
This feeling of traveling to the other side of the globe on my own for the first time is huge, overwhelming even. But oh, the excitement!
The absolute euphoria of doing this is making me walk around with my head in clouds, although please note, this usually leads to a lot of stubbed toes. And bruised shins. And banged up knees. Ouch!
I have gone past sanity, taken a left at madness and kept driving, straight past predictable stable behavior and ploughed right through the dead end called Nutsville!
Ahh well, fasten your seatbelts, this is going to be one hell of a ride folks.
Guess who can't wait. :D
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
All Set and Raring to go
Its been a week since the visas have arrived. And a week since my crazy Delhi weekend. It felt humid to get off an air-conditioned plane onto the still-warm tarmac at the Delhi airport last week.
And humidity and Delhi are two things that usually don't belong in the same sentence. Straight to the hotel and a long awaited dinner. Lay awake worried all night about the fact that in the morning some, as of now face-less and name-less, person would be in charge of making the decision that sent me to Michigan or not.
Woke up in a panic, convinced that I was late and had missed my Interview. A few other unfounded fears later, apart from my panic attacks, I walked out of the Consulate with my head in the clouds. In a few days I would be receiving a document that would allow me to walk through the gates of JFK Airport in a couple of weeks.
All smiles and hugs later, it was time to celebrate.
A couple of Beers, TGIF, Tequila, Friends, Decibel and Vodka later and life was looking good. Music at @live, Lunch at Bikanerwalla, A 3 a.m. walk from India Gate to Rashtrapathi Bhavan, and Goodbye hugs pretty much sum up my trip.
Now all thats left is to pack, get ready to let go of the madness that is my life here and prepare to embrace living halfway across the globe in a country I have never been to before, and for longer than I have ever been away from home.
Its all beginning here and now. And honestly, the view from this beanbag is looking pretty damn good!
And humidity and Delhi are two things that usually don't belong in the same sentence. Straight to the hotel and a long awaited dinner. Lay awake worried all night about the fact that in the morning some, as of now face-less and name-less, person would be in charge of making the decision that sent me to Michigan or not.
Woke up in a panic, convinced that I was late and had missed my Interview. A few other unfounded fears later, apart from my panic attacks, I walked out of the Consulate with my head in the clouds. In a few days I would be receiving a document that would allow me to walk through the gates of JFK Airport in a couple of weeks.
All smiles and hugs later, it was time to celebrate.
A couple of Beers, TGIF, Tequila, Friends, Decibel and Vodka later and life was looking good. Music at @live, Lunch at Bikanerwalla, A 3 a.m. walk from India Gate to Rashtrapathi Bhavan, and Goodbye hugs pretty much sum up my trip.
Now all thats left is to pack, get ready to let go of the madness that is my life here and prepare to embrace living halfway across the globe in a country I have never been to before, and for longer than I have ever been away from home.
Its all beginning here and now. And honestly, the view from this beanbag is looking pretty damn good!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Realization
Euphoria!
It comes crashing over me when it was announced. 3 months at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I don't know how to feel at this point. I am upset at the 3 months away, and absolutely overjoyed at those same 3 months. I am leaving so much behind. Figuratively and Literally. While I know most of it will still be here when I get back, one of those things won't. And it won't ever be again.
The mixed emotions that I can feel all over the place is going to take a while to calm down. The joy, the excitement, the sadness, the hurt (both given and received,) the absolute novelty.
Right now its all that I can fathom.
Realization is sinking in, and once it fully registers, I may do one of two things. Jump through the roof with exultation, or fall through the floor at complete shock. Either way, I seem poised to do some architectural damage tonight!
Until the next time, Au Revoir.
It comes crashing over me when it was announced. 3 months at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I don't know how to feel at this point. I am upset at the 3 months away, and absolutely overjoyed at those same 3 months. I am leaving so much behind. Figuratively and Literally. While I know most of it will still be here when I get back, one of those things won't. And it won't ever be again.
The mixed emotions that I can feel all over the place is going to take a while to calm down. The joy, the excitement, the sadness, the hurt (both given and received,) the absolute novelty.
Right now its all that I can fathom.
Realization is sinking in, and once it fully registers, I may do one of two things. Jump through the roof with exultation, or fall through the floor at complete shock. Either way, I seem poised to do some architectural damage tonight!
Until the next time, Au Revoir.
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