This first blog entry is way overdue! I want to get it up and running because who knows when I will get to it again. I am delighted to be here on the eve of departure as I find the packing, leaving stage of a journey the most difficult. Oh yes, then there is getting to the airport and all of the stops along the way. I have closed one of my suitcases, and it is HEAVY!!! I won't open that one until Sat when I arrive in Kolkata.
This is the first time I have flown standby, and admittedly the half price ticket is a wonder, and the promise of a possible seat in business class the major draw, but I have found the uncertainty a little agonizing. Yesterday the Father gently reminded me that I was supposed to be trusting Him in all of this! Oh yes, Lord, and thank you. I have learned that I am #3, or I was last night, in line and that there are three seats available in business class, or there were last time. It is the Atlanta to Amsterdam flight that seems questionable. The onward flight to Mumbai (Bombay) isn't as tight. So, I am due to fly out of Richmond tomorrow @ 2:24 p.m. and out of ATL @ 5:30. The connection is also quite tight. Just asking the Father to help me get it all done!
Meanwhile in Mumbai, Kedu who is now a surgeon in Mumbai and doing cancer research at the Tata Hospital . . . Class of 2000 at Woodstock, has the three days in Mumbai planned. Discovering that for various reasons the original places to stay didn't work, she has booked me a hotel out near the airport. She and Rebecca, another old student from Woodstock (Class of 2002) are going to make sure that the reunions I was hoping for are going to take place. Indian hospitality . . . it's something else!!!
I'm so grateful that many things sort of fell into place yesterday. Now I have my TO DO list and I am working through it. The house is cleaner than it was and I am feeling that this is really going to happen.
I'll post from Mumbai if I can. I am not at all sure what internet access will be like. I still don't have a lap top . . . maybe when I get home this time! I know where the cyber cafes are in Kolkata, though, so hopefully you will hear again in a week or less.
Divali is Nov 12 - 14 so shops, etc may be closed. (That is the biggest Hindu festival of the year.) I thought it was in Oct, but it must be one of those holidays that is based on something like the moon!
All for now . . .
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