24 Hours

I am here now!!

I wish that I could email you each individually but unfortunately it is easier to just blog...hence the post:).

I must say the past couple of days has been a whirlwind - to be expected - and to my unfortunate demise I thought that I would have left my stress behind in America when I got on the plane to come here.....what a lie. Not that it is bad stress - I take that back all stress is bad - but stress over getting things done. How pathetic tho?? The one thing that I am worried about most is actually this excerpt that I am writing for this woman's book that has to be done in a few weeks. In hindsight I shouldn't have agreed to it especially on such short of notice before my departure date. But now here I am in Kolkata trying to finish a story that I am supposed to send back home. Anyway, now that I am done venting on to the more exciting part......

Cars honking, bikes peeping, dogs parking, people shouting.....it NEVER stops :)!! Even cats fighting! It is city life, crowded life, but I think a wonderful one none the less. (I might change my mind about that after I start volunteering tomorrow at mother Teresa's Homes - we will have to wait and see). The biggest word that has been very apparent since I have arrived here is DESTINY. Everything - or should I say the most important things - have been working out beautifully. My friend here in Kolkata has been amazing, sending her taxi driver to come pick us up at the airport with a sign and everything. Meeting wonderful people, and having a go-to person here to show us around is so significant in the type of experience you have - which i am sure you all already know so moving on :). The past day and half that I have been here I have deeply felt that if you will something there is a way and it WILL happen (I hope I am not being preachy). And the more it happens the more confidence you have that things will work out. In many ways this trip has been a leap of faith because many months ago when I bought my one way ticket I did not have solid contacts and in the course of a few months I now have people in every place we are going to! Trippy isn't it?!

I'll leave you with that...and....soon to come...pictures!

Love J