Let me explain as to why I am so far behind on my blog entries. I have been creating a blog for Sangam World Centre. It usually is easy, but the challenge is that we have multiple audiences. With that being said, every time I think it's done something else has to change. Tomorrow my line manager and I are going over it again to tweak it before we send it to the powers at be. Let me also just tell you that my public is about 10 million people worldwide. When I am not working on the blog, finding new items for the shop, covering reception, and making participants happy (just to name a few), I also keep the WAGGGS World Bureau updated with the information that they request from me. I do not have the luxury of being expressive with superlatives when I am stressed. What I have found here in India is that there is a massive world of double standards, and it drives me absolutely crazy. That's why I am so very grateful for my friends back in the States that allow me to express myself.
I will say that I am absolutely overwhelmed. I don't know what I was thinking about when I signed up for two summer classes online. The one class is quite informative, but the other class is going to be the death of me. My professor decided to bump everything up at the last minute. I don't have time to breathe let alone get all of his stuff completed. A friend here in India tells me that online classes are easy and shouldn't be a big deal. Well, I wish I could quote a line from the first or second episode of season 1 of Ugly Betty. (Yeah, don't judge me :) Betty is carping on Daniel, and Daniel tells her that not to belittle what he is going through just because she feels like it's easy for her. What is easy for me may not be easy for you and vice versa. So, I try very hard not to mention the stresses of school. Really, it should be not big deal. I just HAVE to pass these two classes. I go back to the States and school in the middle of my last semester. I don't have a place to stay nor a job for that matter. We won't even get started on how stressed I am about finding a real job after I graduate, because really it's a piece of cake. Esta Bien.
I miss the South desperately, and I have been saying “bless your heart” a whole lot more often than I usually due since I have been censored.
On a positive note, I am enjoying what I am doing here. I went to a place called Maher last event. It is a home for children and mentally challenged women. Some of the children were taken off the streets as beggars and given a home. Yes, it is a “children's home” but they now have a roof over there head, clothes on their back, and food in their belly. The women and children touched my heart. Here is a picture of one of the children that just hung on me. (I absolutely loved every minute there)
I read in the local newspaper about an orphanage where children were beaten and starved to death. This makes me even more grateful that there are good places like Maher as shelters for children to go to. I wanted to cry after reading that story. I do not know how someone can be so cruel. The world is full of beautiful, wonderful sights that remind you that there is a higher existence.
I love you my dear friends. I love my family with every fiber of my being. I might be half way across the world at the moment, but I am always here. I'm grateful that God has not given up on me just yet. Remember “Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else.”- Marjorie Pay Hinkley.
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