how deep in the valley

Hello,

I am back now from a glorious trip to Nepal. We got to spend time with the team serving in community there, we ate way too much delicious food, and we took in as much of the beautiful surroundings as possible.
I must also tell you that I got to jump into a lake, take Gita from a spin on a bicycle and eat a bowl of hummus all in one day. How lucky am I.

Of course I missed Kolkata while I was in Nepal, but the transition home to the city was still difficult. Nepal is such a different place and the break was so nice, but we all felt like we were coming back to a home when the hot air and loud streets of Kolkata hit us again. Luckily the girls that stay there were able to show us around the places that they serve and call home, and that helped to understand Nepal from a different view. The tourist industry is massive all over the country, but being with these girls we really were able to enter into their "Kolkata". We were able to see the places that they spend time volunteering, we got to meet the Nepali familes they eat with, and we got to hear lots of stories about how life has been for them in Kathmandu.

(sorry sorry, I left my camera card at the house. I will post pictures in the next couple of days!)



Less than two weeks left in Kolkata. Let's be honest, I am exhausted. I feel like the trip to Nepal was the perfect refreshment; I feel like I have bright eyes and new energy to spend in my last couple of weeks here. I cannot really imagine yet how it will feel to leave my Bengali family, and to leave the places that have been my home for the last four months.

P.S. A cyclone came through Kolkata yesterday. It was nuts. I am ok though.


The way on may be truly to stand in one place
And let the deep of the valley
Fill you will grace