Back home.

I've been in Denmark the past 26 hrs. Its weird to be back home again - you see your country with prom a new perspective. Denmark is so neat and clean - and quite empty! There's hardly anyone on the streets or anywhere else for that matter... But as much as i miss Mumbai and the people there, it's still really nice to be at home.

My parents, grandmother and my best friends picked me up in the airport, we drove home and had brunch, and during the day a lot of people stopped by to greet me welcome. The bags that didn't make the connecting flight from Munich reached only 8 hrs after i had gotten home and all my luggage were then delivered to my home by courier and by 7pm i could hand out all my many presents to family and friends...


Good to be back. Odd. But good!

Last goodbyes

In one and a half hours i'll be off to the airport, im both excited and sad. I'm (finally) done with my packing and have minimized my overweight as much as possible. All day today people have been stopping by to say the last goodbyes. Its an odd feeling and what i really want now is just to jump on the plane and be home.

I cant wait to see everyone in Denmark again! So thanks for an amazing year - India has been kind to me. But now it's time to go home.

Thats all for now, next post will be from Denmark.

- Maria

one 10th of my stay is now completed!

Now Im back again, we passed the first month, my host sis (Janhavi) has left India and gone to Denmark and I have gotten through my one-month-crisis (although; to call is a crisis might be to overstate it just a tiny bit)... I knew when coming here, that there would be more rules than I was used to in Denmark. But when I was not allowed to travel alone for 7 stations by train to meet with some other inbounds, outbounds and rebounds. I felt as though I was being treated like a kid. Luckily we sorted things out. My host mom took me to the station during peak hours to show me what it could be like. Seeing that, I were able to see that there might be some sense to their restrictions, and we made a deal that I could go if it was out of peak hours.


2nd class in the Ladies compartment during peak hours (7pm)

And yesterday I actually went, by train, alone, all the way to churchgate (a one hour journey) and then to my college to pick up another sigature needed for the FRRO registration (have lost all respect for anything that has anything to do with the bureaucracy that going on there)... And I met up with Stuti, one of Janhavis friends from the college. We went for ice cream, and she followed me to the station where i took the train to Goregaon and a rickshaw home.

Stuff...

Yesterday I spoke to my mother on Skype for the first time in three weeks. She told me that she had just recieved a letter saying that she is accepted at the University of Copenhagen at Psychology, so congrats to my cool mom (and credits to her for having the courage!)... I am also very curios to hear how its going at home, because today is the day that Erica (the american inbound) will arrive in Copenhagen to live with my family!

Back to India: I am getting sort of restless, really wish that college would start soon so I could meet some other people my age (beside Janhavi, Neha and Christian)... But its still nice to have a good amount of time to get used to everything!

The weather is still rainy, and i would like to see the sun sometime soon. Within the last three weeks I have lost every hint of a tan I had when I left Denmark (who would have thought I'd go pale in India?!)... Although I think that in October (one of the two hottest months in India) I'll look back at these days, wishing It could go back to being cloudy! :)




I still love it here, weather and all!
Take care <3
Maria

A new beginning

The holidays have kicked in, and I am very relaxed... Theres 5 days left in Denmark before I take off for India. Im so excited, and have my doubts to weather or not I'm able to wait until friday.

Got home from the departure-briefing yesterday, and I feel ready to go. I have a that a lot of the other outbounds from Denmark will be following my every step on facebook for the first couple of weeks (most of them wont leave Denmark until august).

10 days ago I went shopping with Joanna, and I bought all the presents Im going to need in India (and more)... I wont reveal what I bought, because my host families and counsellors might be reading this...

All in all, I just cat wait!