India

I've barely used this blog since I started it, and I haven't actually told anyone about it. It is going to turn into an India blog, though. That's one of the things I'm most excited about regarding my imminent trip to India for an internship this summer.

It's looking like I'll be gone 10 weeks, May 6-July 15. That way, I'll have enough time to be useful at the NGO (http://www.nbjkusa.org/), but I'll still be back in Kalamazoo before my apartment lease ends and I'll have time to move out. I know very little about what it's going to be like, but here's the little I know so far:

• I will be living in a flat by myself for the first 3 weeks or so, until my friend Helen comes and moves in.
• Our primary form of transportation will be bicycles.
• I will have internet at my house. (Yay!)
• There will be plenty of creepy crawly insects. Good thing I got used to that in Senegal.
• My plane ticket will probably cost me more than my entire 10-week stay.
• The state I'll be living in is called Jharkhand. I'll fly into Ranchi and then it will be a 2-hr drive to the place I'll stay.
• The trip there will be about 2 days.
• I'll get there during the unbearably-hot-and-dry season and will get to experience the beginning of the unbearably-hot-and-wet season before I leave.
• My flat will not have hot water (which shouldn't be an issue at all since 1. I got used to that in Senegal, and 2. it will be unbearably hot out).
• We will not decide what I'll actually be doing for my internship until I have been there for a week.

More to come.