One month and 26 days...

Now we're almost halfway through april, and i'm returning to Denmark on the 5th of june. I feel really weird about it... On one hand i'm really excited to go back to my friends and family and returning to my "normal" life. On the other hand i still feel like i belong in Mumbai, it's an odd feeling and it didn't really come before sometime in december, but now i actually feel like a part of this city, i'm not like an alien on a strange planet anymore - this is my home too!

My friends here are the best! and it's very hard to imagine that one of them, Beatriz, is going back to Brazil in only one month. It really made me realize how it's all coming to an end, and frankly i don't like that thought!

It's funny actually, in the beginning, the first two months especially, i felt like time was passing in slow motion and i really thought that a year would feel like a lifetime. Let's just say it snuck up on me. This morning i woke up and almost started panicking because i started thinking of this wonderful and fantastic year coming to an end.

Dont get me wrong, i miss my danish family and my danish friends and i am so excited to see them all again. My friends here, Riina and Beatriz especially, i hope to stay in touch with for the rest of my life. I want the magic of this year to continue forever.

Deep down i know that you cannot "have your cake and eat it too". But i really wish i could!

Holi !

Ill take a small break from writing about the North trip (/there will be more, don't worry) and tell about the wonderful festival i was lucky enough to experience yesterday. Now it is harvest time in India and with that comes the festival of colors! People gather on the streets and in the societies and play with water and color-powder. Its so much fun.! The night before there is held a big bonfire in the villages and in the building societies. They do pooja (De tilbeder ilden og beder for et gunstigt udbytte) to the fire and roast coconuts! Then on the actual day of holi (which was yesterday) I went to a big holi party along with a bunch of other exchangestudents and around 100 other people everyone was in crisp clean white shirts that would soon be ruined by the fun games involving gulal (the colorful powders used everywhere on this day). We would mix it in a bit of water and splash it all over each other! We had a blast!

Before & After

Its also a tradition on this day that you do Bhang, an indian 'drug' put in a sweet milk drink called Thandai and gets you high for days! Of course we didnt do that. But walking on the road you would see so many people obviously under the influence of something (if it was alcohol or Bhang - ill never know, but it sure was fun to watch! )

Even the dog on mahalaxmi station had been playing holi!