Positive Times

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated (although, not as long of a break from my ‘blog’ as some other people I know) I was waiting until I uploaded some more photographs from my travels and of my new place.

In the personal life: I went to Rishikesh (meditation/yoga town), relaxed, thought of the Beatles, watched the Israelis go by and saw the most gorgeous statue of Shiva I have ever seen. Is it wrong to be inlove with a God's statue? I slacked off of work and did some sightseeing around Delhi. Just got back from Jodphur (blue city in Rajasthan) this morning. I have moved into my new flat and I love my roommates and the sounds of the temple bells when I wake up. I like walking down the tiny roads around cows on my way to work and I like the fact that everything is at least ½ price in the nagar. I’ve bought a guitar and am currently attempting to strum the chromatic scale without realizing that I’m a cliché. I have also spent a good time of the last few weeks contemplating what I’m going to do when I grow up. As ironic as it is, I’m tired of the road to all that, I just want to be there already.

In the work life: started assisting my coworker with the HIV/AIDS sensitivity groups. Unfortunately, so far, the groups we’ve helped with are much more comfortable with Hindi. Damn my colonialistic English Canada. I’m also currently attempting to edit our first edition of “Positive Times” - a monthly newsletter my co-worker and I came up with to disseminate HIV/AIDS current information and news to our member associations, grassroot branches and volunteers. On Thursday I leave for Bangladesh to attend and assist at IPPF SAR Gender Based Violence monitoring and evaluation workshop. I am, for the most part, just there to record and create a “tool kit” on how to run similar workshops in the future but, hey, it’s a free trip to Bangladesh dealing with a very interesting project/topic.

I have to run but I will post some pictures up as soon as I get them. The rest will be on my flickr website when I upload them at http://www.flickr.com/people/michelle/.

Take care folks! Love yah!