It's be so wonderful here. I've made some of the best friends of my life, found a new family in my host family, learned so much (a conservative estimate would put the ratio of real world learning to uni learning at 10:1) and still managed to read coherently my goodbye letter despite my host brother filming me.
See facebook for the dirty details. It'll be up any minute I'm sure, filled with obnoxious comments about my accent and coherency.
But hey, there was unanimous agreement that I'd made enormous progress ("Before, we were thought, she talks nonsense, but now we KNOW you talk nonsense.")
Midwestern liberal pacifist meets conservative catholic french family, and falls in love. Not in the rom com fashion, more a "Eat Pray Love" meets "Princess Diaries" in a much less sinister manner.
Encounter of the Year: Serge Koutchinsky, a professional (now retired) photographer, filmmaker and well travelled adventurer. He was at a neighborhood party yesterday and met my host mom, who then mentioned I was going to the same part of India, and so I got invited to tea.
Some photos (of which I take no credit, possession or authorization for, they are his sole property)
Absolutely incredible, and he specializes in the rituals of death around the world, particularly Mexico and India at the moment.
Anyways, I'm getting up at 5am to go catch a train to catch a bus to catch flight to go see my british family!!
Which is code for, good night and adieu. So long and farewell.
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