hearing aids, walking aids, rolaids, and driving aids ( Read more... )

so it's been awhile. sorry about that ( Read more... )

at this time tomorrow, i'm pretty sure i will be in amman, jordan. maybe buying a hookah with greta. maybe wishing with all of my heart that i was in india. maybe in jail because i will have not declared everything i have bought in india because i don't remember it all ( Read more... )

emails with less than 5 words in them crack me up ( Read more... )

I've developed the impolite Indian habit of reading over people's shoulders as they write emails at internet cafes. The man next to me, probably no older than I, is writing a love letter to a woman I do not think he has ever met. He calls her a rare pearl and says that he cannot stop thinking about her. He says that he hopes that god eases all ( Read more... )

i am currently in sikkim, home to many a buddhist monestary and prayer flag ( Read more... )

thanks to the excellent number-picking skills of miss valerie vega, i'm living somewhere on haven first in a single. i look forward to making it look like india threw up all over my small dorm room.

right now my india is not so great because i miss greta and sara and jaye- mum mum.  i said goodbye to her a little while ago.  it was sad.  she also ( Read more... )

tonight is my last night in kolkata. i have dinner with my father (mother is too tired to eat) at a fancy restaurant with charger plates and fabric menus and see two american or british boys probably my age who look like they just stepped off the prep school bus along with a busboy who says he has seen me at a computer lab. i drop my father off ( Read more... )

mark left on friday for the states. peter left saturday morning for darjeeling. bailey, ross, sara, greta and jaye left last night for darjeeling. i am the only one left in kolkata. it's rather lonely and strangely quiet. last night was the first night i spent alone in a room in some time ( Read more... )

I sit in the American Center, working on a project that is both for school and for Shishu Bhavan. Bailey and I are writing a guide to teaching at the school including background the history and mission statement of the school, information on the disorders which affect some of the children, some theory on teaching special needs kids and ( Read more... )