It's beginning to feel like India!

Sarah, Have a wonderful first week in your new country.  It's hard to believe you are in India,  you just left South Africa behind and breathtaking Thailand awaits you for Christmas.

I take back what I said about South Africa better being last.  I think it worked out just the way it was supposed to work out.  Got a chunk of the inevitable group dynamic B.S. out of the way while staying in a place that is "kind of" like the US.  I think India will be your true gateway to the rest of your adventure and you've paved the way by already have moved through some of your own issues and feelings. You hard work and struggle has rewarded you to now be more calm and confident with your place in this adventure;  now its time to focus on filling your senses with the sights, sounds, tastes, smells  of the people and majestic land of India; a place you only dreamed of going for so long

You get the opportunity to have a new family for a short time. It doesn't matter what others kids you are rooming with.   Enjoy the new family as much as you can!  You will be the first home stay group in Palampur for TBB, so every thing will be new.
 
Yes it will be exhausting.  Give in to the fact, and perhaps it can also be energizing.  Yes,  it will continue to be hard to be around 20 other people all the time.  How can it not and that's OK! It would be for anyone. This trip was always meant to be a personal journey and it was always meant to push you on many levels.

Dad's favorite line comes to mind,
 "Life is difficult.  When we finally accept that fact, life instantly becomes less difficult."


Love Mom and the man in the moon who followed you all the away to Palampur.
FULL MOON: Thursday November 6