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I leave in two weeks. To be honest, I haven't had time to give it much thought, and I'm kind of grateful for that. I have my last final exam of the semester tonight, and then on Thursday the class I TA for takes their exam. That means I'll have free time Tuesday and Wednesday, and then I'll be busy Thursday-Monday, and then I'll just have a week to prepare for my departure.

This last weekend I had a bunch of friends in town, the circus club (of which I was president last year) had their spring show, I went with Jeff to his newest niece's baptism and hung out with the family, and I enjoyed lots of good food. My stress level is much, much lower now than it has been for weeks. I'm working on scheduling lunches and coffee dates with friends to make sure I get to see everyone here before I leave, and I've been thinking a lot about what life will look like when I come back. My friends who are seniors at K College will have graduated and moved away by then, and most of my college friends will be gone for the summer. Somehow in the last month and a half of summer, I'll need to schedule time to visit California and go to Yosemite, and hopefully go camping with Jeff and our Kzoo friends somewhere in Michigan. It will be an exciting time.

I'm trying to get myself to stop thinking of my India time as filler, which I hadn't realized I was doing until recently. In my head, it's been this blank period of time that I just have to get through so I can move on with the rest of my life. But getting field experience, integrating into a new culture, potentially learning to cook new and exciting things, meeting potentially fabulous people--it is all way more exciting than I've been giving it credit for. I've been too busy worrying about getting lonely, thinking about what movies and TV shows and knitting projects I should take with me, to think about the positive things. So I guess that's my project for the next two weeks.

Wow. Two weeks.