BACK

I'm Back.

For all of you that have been disheartened (and disillusioned) by the complete lack of a single post in the past month and a half - I apologize. The past for me has been great - in hindsight. As many of you know, I spent my 3 week vacation in the United States of America partying with my family and many of you. I had all sorts of American experiences (i.e. long hot showers, civil driving practices, NBA basketball, etc.) that I had learned to appreciate more deeply through my time here in India. Now, I'm back in India, ready to begin another six (or seven) months with EMI. Well I didn't just get back. I've been here for 3 weeks, but I'm finally back in Mussoorie, at my desk, with all my assignments for the upcoming term handed out. I didn't offer any closure on last term and I really wanted to. I had started writing a pretty lengthy blog post, planning on posting it before I headed out of here but ultimately just ran out of time. I'll get that together in the next couple of weeks before I head off for my first trip in Punjab. (Jasmine - I'm going to see the border ceremony between India and Pakistan while I'm there. Everyone else - I should have a good blog post about that once I get back.)

So yea, let me just fill you guys in on what's been going on since I've been here.

I actually tried out for New Delhi's ultimate team and invariably made it - so I'll be practicing with them a couple of times and playing a tournament for them in March in Tamil Nadu. I'm imagine that's going to be an extremely surreal experience playing an ultimate tournament in India. I can't convey to you how excited I am though. I've been in complete ultimate withdrawal since I started my time in India.

I was in Delhi for a week, in which time I spent time with the ultimate team and also just hung out. I went to the lotus temple with is actually a Bahi temple, but also happens to be one of the most ridiculous structures I've ever seen. If you can imagine it, the entire structure was hand poured with gargantuan wood/steel molds and thousands of workers literally pouring concrete in bucket increments. Absolutely ridiculous.

Alright that's all I've got for now. But I'll return with (lengthy) thoughts on last term and maybe a preview of my activities for these upcoming months.

Thanks for caring.