four days 'til takeoff.
Waking up this morning brings me to say: only four days left before i leave. Every morning is a countdown, everyday i think of things i'm doing for the last time for a very long while. I'm not sure really why i do that, cause it feels very strange.
Either way, four days now. And just like i've said everyday for the last two months "i can't believe it's so soon!" Yes, i can't believe it, but now i'll stop saying it.. or i will do my best to try. And instead i will say "i'll believe it when i'm there" and maybe not even then =) It's all quite overwhelming, i've never been away for such a long time and i've never gone so long without my family. My family means everything to me, they are such a big and important piece of my life and me so it will be very strange to not see them for two months, Lisa, Henrik and the kids- almost three months.
I'm used to seeing them several times a week.
I'm glad that mom and dad are coming with me on the first part of my trip. I really am. And also i'm very happy that i am doing this whole thing. When something goes from just being a dream to actually happening..well that's big i guess. I've dreamed about going to india for quite some time and to be able to now do it for a longer period of time means alot to me. I'm soooo excited.
My first interest in india came around the age of sixteen i'd say, or actually reading about it in school when i was younger maybe gave me the first hint. I remember reading about the taj mahal and thinking "wow, what a place and he built that for his wife?" But yeah other than that i'd say i was about sixteen, i read a book called a trip to india that i found. I really enjoyed the book, well actually that was a bit exaggerating, the book itself was maybe not the best. It was about these british people(if i remember it right) that went to india. While in india most things actually went wrong and lots of bad things happened to them. But the way the writer described the country made me very interested. You'd think that it would have put me off, but it all sounded so exciting, with the action, the colors, the people, the atmosphere. It sounded like a place i would like to see.
I think that is what started my interest in one day wanting to go there. Around that time Dido came out with here album "Life for rent" where the song "mary's in india" quickly became one of my favourites. Coincidence? probably.
For christmas year 2006 my sister and i both got a gift certificate to start yoga from our father. Which we in january 2007 did. And there it was yoga, ashtanga this amazing thing from India! In the beginning of 2008 my father travelled to Mysore (where our guru lives and teaches) to train. And that's when i decided: "I'm going to do that" Well from the beginning i guess it was more "i want to do that too!" So i started saving, well actually i'd been saving for something like that for a while already.
It was a big step for me to stop thinking "If i ever go to india!" and start saying "when i go to india!" It just sound so much more hopeful.
So here i am four days left. I want to start packing now! but most of my clothes are dirty and i don't have washing until sunday.
I work today, but i don't start until three o'clock. Which is nice because it gave me a nice sleep-in and also i have time to go do yoga at the shala.
I'll probably be doing a light version of it today again because my nose is all runny and i've got this cough that doesn't seem to want to go away. But still i really want to go cause i always feel so much better doing it.
i better start getting things ready, i'm still in pyjamas =)
Oh! and this is how the yoga bag i made for myself looks that i'm bringing. I thought I might just as well sew one for myself for a change, a new bag for a new trip. =) I like it.
//mich.
Either way, four days now. And just like i've said everyday for the last two months "i can't believe it's so soon!" Yes, i can't believe it, but now i'll stop saying it.. or i will do my best to try. And instead i will say "i'll believe it when i'm there" and maybe not even then =) It's all quite overwhelming, i've never been away for such a long time and i've never gone so long without my family. My family means everything to me, they are such a big and important piece of my life and me so it will be very strange to not see them for two months, Lisa, Henrik and the kids- almost three months.
I'm used to seeing them several times a week.
I'm glad that mom and dad are coming with me on the first part of my trip. I really am. And also i'm very happy that i am doing this whole thing. When something goes from just being a dream to actually happening..well that's big i guess. I've dreamed about going to india for quite some time and to be able to now do it for a longer period of time means alot to me. I'm soooo excited.
My first interest in india came around the age of sixteen i'd say, or actually reading about it in school when i was younger maybe gave me the first hint. I remember reading about the taj mahal and thinking "wow, what a place and he built that for his wife?" But yeah other than that i'd say i was about sixteen, i read a book called a trip to india that i found. I really enjoyed the book, well actually that was a bit exaggerating, the book itself was maybe not the best. It was about these british people(if i remember it right) that went to india. While in india most things actually went wrong and lots of bad things happened to them. But the way the writer described the country made me very interested. You'd think that it would have put me off, but it all sounded so exciting, with the action, the colors, the people, the atmosphere. It sounded like a place i would like to see.
I think that is what started my interest in one day wanting to go there. Around that time Dido came out with here album "Life for rent" where the song "mary's in india" quickly became one of my favourites. Coincidence? probably.
For christmas year 2006 my sister and i both got a gift certificate to start yoga from our father. Which we in january 2007 did. And there it was yoga, ashtanga this amazing thing from India! In the beginning of 2008 my father travelled to Mysore (where our guru lives and teaches) to train. And that's when i decided: "I'm going to do that" Well from the beginning i guess it was more "i want to do that too!" So i started saving, well actually i'd been saving for something like that for a while already.
It was a big step for me to stop thinking "If i ever go to india!" and start saying "when i go to india!" It just sound so much more hopeful.
So here i am four days left. I want to start packing now! but most of my clothes are dirty and i don't have washing until sunday.
I work today, but i don't start until three o'clock. Which is nice because it gave me a nice sleep-in and also i have time to go do yoga at the shala.
I'll probably be doing a light version of it today again because my nose is all runny and i've got this cough that doesn't seem to want to go away. But still i really want to go cause i always feel so much better doing it.
i better start getting things ready, i'm still in pyjamas =)
Oh! and this is how the yoga bag i made for myself looks that i'm bringing. I thought I might just as well sew one for myself for a change, a new bag for a new trip. =) I like it.
//mich.
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Postat av: Mommy
Hi Sweetie,
Exciting isn't it??? We are going to have a blast. See you soon.
Hugs,
Mommy
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