So much to learn, so little time
I would like to know the following:
1) India – ever since I read a Passage to India now almost 30 years ago, I have fantasized about India. I would like to know India, not just visit it.
2) Turkish – I want to speak Turkish with some degree of conversational ease.
3) Parent – I want to be a mother.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:23 am
India is fascinating. We’re going there next year–hubby is planning a family excursion for our whole family here–to meet with family there somewhere in the north, like Ladakh. Otherwise it’s too hot in June when we have to go since everyone in the family here are academics with classes to teach and research to run during the best times to travel there. One of these I’ll be writing a bit more about some of my times there. Try to go soon though. It’s getting a lot more Westernized every year.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I hate to hear that – I know India is not for every traveler but I want to experience it before it becomes something else. God is there any place that is not under siege to be like everything else? Well yes, there is, Cuba – I went a decade ago and it was such a remarkable experience. I was living in San Francisco under an extraordinary time – the dot.com explosion where people at the cafes went from discussing love to sharing 401K amounts – arrive in Cuba and it was refreshingly the antithesis of that – music, food, people – no money. I’m not glamorizing Cuba – they were not without their troubles – one guy said they were burning the crates cheese came in during the special period just to make pizzas – which btw became the national staple since food was so expensive. But Cuba at that time over San Francisco was a no brainer.
I would like to say I’ll get to India before your family trip but as we’re hoping to adopt a baby, I don’t think India is in my near future (sadly) – but I will read every little bit you write about it. I’m reading a collection of short stories by Mark Tully right now.