After almost a week and a half in India, and my first experience of culture-shock in a long time, I realized that I have much to be thankful for. So in the spirit of (post) Thanksgiving & relating a bit about my trip, I am thankful for...
- The ability to rinse my mouth with/drink tap water again
- The fact that Americans actually drive inside lanes and (usually) use turn signals
- The existence of a US welfare system
- My education (seeing so many children on the streets, weaving between cars while performing acrobatics for spare change on a school day made me sad)
- My continued (goodish) health and the ability to travel
- The delicious vegetarian Indian food that was served at the wedding--who knew vegetarian could taste so good?
- The gorgeous and still relatively preserved sites around India (Agra fort, Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Amber Fort... lots of forts)
- The variety of food in the US (I could only eat naan and curry for so long...)
- Good roommates (unrelated to the trip, but thankful none-the-less)
- The liberal and, what I would deem, progressive nature of Berkeley
- The ability to wear shorts/dresses that go above the knees
- Technology that captures and memorializes every moment of an eventful trip
- Having the sense to put the technology away every once in a while and just fully enjoy the moment
Now it's 2 weeks of finals where I need to crank out three exams and one 25-page paper. See you on the other side.
- The ability to rinse my mouth with/drink tap water again
- The fact that Americans actually drive inside lanes and (usually) use turn signals
- The existence of a US welfare system
- My education (seeing so many children on the streets, weaving between cars while performing acrobatics for spare change on a school day made me sad)
- My continued (goodish) health and the ability to travel
- The delicious vegetarian Indian food that was served at the wedding--who knew vegetarian could taste so good?
- The gorgeous and still relatively preserved sites around India (Agra fort, Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Amber Fort... lots of forts)
- The variety of food in the US (I could only eat naan and curry for so long...)
- Good roommates (unrelated to the trip, but thankful none-the-less)
- The liberal and, what I would deem, progressive nature of Berkeley
- The ability to wear shorts/dresses that go above the knees
- Technology that captures and memorializes every moment of an eventful trip
- Having the sense to put the technology away every once in a while and just fully enjoy the moment
Now it's 2 weeks of finals where I need to crank out three exams and one 25-page paper. See you on the other side.
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