I cannot
believe that in 2 more days, I will be leaving India to go back home!! The 9 months working
over here have really flown by. As much as I am really excited to get back home
to all my family and friends, I am REALLY going to miss India. I have met so
many wonderful people over here and have learnt so much about life, myself,
different cultures, and different ways of life. I have even learnt to eat chicken
curry for breakfast, dinner and tea! I have seen many wonderful and
interesting things while over here that I never taught I would see. I have been
to temples, watched the sunset at the south tip of India were the 3 oceans meet, celebrated festivals, went to the gateway of
India, seen 4 pretty girls shave their hair off for charity, done traditional dancing with sticks in the back garden of a palace with 500+ Indians for Dandia, went to lots of different beaches and many other random places. I am also going to miss simple things like
walking through India listening to The Kinks, Beatles & Oasis
thinking to myself "I am in India!".
I am sure you're
wondering that it can’t be all good….well, just like anywhere including Ireland
there is a few things I wont be missing…. I won’t be missing the same food all
the time, the polluted air, the near death experiences on the road with the crazy
auto rickshaw drivers (They apparently have traffic rules, but I am yet to see
someone obey them) and finally I won't miss the journey to work crossing over
the bridge where nobody should look left or right as you may see a man with a
bucket of water on a mission to freshen up the air with his manly aroma. It is not a pretty sight but at the end of the day, that is life.
The
best part of coming here would have to be all the friends I have made – (in no
particular order):
Colm (I love auto drivers!), Tayo (Trust me), Babar, Justin (Better
looking at it than looking for it!!), Imran (I feel sick!), Zee (I also feel sick!!), Din(Allllriiiight), Trisha, Peter (God bless you!), Rob(Im
all alone in Kolkota), Hannah, Sunit(Alright man...), Shekhar (Watch out for that
mirror!!), Neel (Loves me for all the weird bugs I find doing my
“Monkey Testing”), Surendra (Watch you dont spill coke on that pizza!!), Abhishek(Mmmmm coke on pizza is really yummy!!), Prada (Can I ask you “1” question steo?), Ravneet
(Hey man, hi 5!), Ste, Ujjval (aka The Man), Wikram, Zara(But why…), Anil (Sneaky Sneaky).
To my Indian friends i say Goodbye!! And to my Irish friends i say "Whats the craic?"!
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