June 06, 2004

Time to Leave

It's almost time to leave for the airport. Honestly, I'm still not really comfortable with the idea that I'll be in India in 48 hours. I'm very wary about the trip over because it's supposed to take about 30 hours and I'm honestly not that great with long plane trips: 7 hours from Newark to Frankfurt, 7 hours in the Frankfurt airport, 7 hours to Delhi, 7 hours in the Delhi airport, and then another hour long flight to Lucknow where (God willing) there will be someone holding a card with my name on it, waiting to pick me up. Though today is Sunday, I won't reach IITK until 9am on Tuesday or something like that. Who knows what shape I'll be in when I get there...

Believe it or not, the thing that I'm looking forward to most right now is working. My laptop died a little over a month ago, so I haven't had a computer or a space to call my own for awhile now, and it's been pretty frustrating. I figure that if I'm travelling to a place without potable water and toilet paper, at least take I can take comfort in the familiarity of Microsoft Windows. I know that sounds pretty sad, but I'll take what connectivity to home I can get.

Posted by Michael at June 6, 2004 04:11 PM
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