Travelling, or Lack Thereof

Coming to India has presented me with a plethora of traveling opportunities — Mysore, Goa, Delhi, Agra, the Taj Mahal, and many more.  We wanted one big thing to top all of them, it had to be the biggest thing in the world, Mt. Everest.  The idea was originally put in our head from our friend Prince, our Fragomen representative.  He has a friend in Nepal that said everything was fine to come and we were going to have a great weekend. This was our second week here that he said that.  I have been looking forward to this for almost two months now.  Until the recent bombings and heightened situations in India started us to worry about the whole thing. Also, the Nepalese government has recently become even more unstable. The bottom line was that Honeywell STRONGLY recommended that we DO NOT travel to Nepal and they could do little to protect us should something happen. This came down right from Jim Sontag, the Chief Security Officer at Honeywell. I could not just tell him “NO”.  I have a feeling that he knows what he’s talking about. So, the trip is no more.  We had to cancel our plane tickets and look out for our better interest and safety.  There are a lot of people that would be in trouble if anything happened to us, and there are even more people that are worried about our safe return home.

  Now, that means we have another weekend in Bangalore, or somewhere else that we can get ourselves to.  I really don’t know what we are going to do.  Some ideas are re-surfacing that we have thought about previously and even some new ones.  But, what ever we do, I hope its good.  After all, this is our last weekend here.

  What ever we do, I still have more traveling ahead of me before I get home, and no, not just the flights home.  I don’t know if I said it before or not, but after I leave India, I am going to France for two weeks.  Way back at the beginning of the summer, I thought why not? I am going to be flying home through Europe, a nice little detour to go see some family and friends would be great!  Another nice bit of timing was that my grandmother is going to be there the same time I will.  It really worked out great.  So, even after my India adventure is done, come back here to my blog and you can read about transitioning to French life for two weeks, and then my change back to American life.  I am interested to see how much of India I take back with me, and then how much survives my trip home.  Specifically, the head bobble.  I do it without even thinking anymore.  Also, I have been phrasing some questions differently, adjusting to the Indian way of speaking.  For instance, everything is a very indirect sentence with the major point stuck on to the end of the long winded sentence.  Speaking of speaking, I need to start brushing up on my French speaking.  I can’t expect to have the same level of English spoken in France that I have been accustomed to in India.

  On the work front, my projects are starting to wrap up, and everything is coming to a close.  I think everything will be done in time, but I am interested to see how it all plays out - I have less than 7 working days left!

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