March 29th, 2008

Okay... so I'm bad at this blogging thing. Some friends of mine have got me hooked on facebook now and I always forget that I have this blog site to keep up. SORRY. I really do want you all to know what's going on over here! Really I do!

So... what IS going on? I just got back from a 2 week trip with my teammates Danielle and the Burns. We traveled to Chandigarh and then up to Manali. We checked out possible future option for living in Chandigarh... but it didn't pan out well. My teammates the Burns, are expecting their second child in August and they are looking for a good hospital. They weren't impressed with the ones in Chandigarh. So basically we stopped looking at housing too. They are needing to first find a good place to have their baby and then we can focus on our long term location here. Chandigarh is kind of an expensive place to live in India. It is a different, clean and somewhat pretty city. We certainly enjoyed our time there. We found a great bakery and ate breakfast there almost every day we were there.

After about a week of enjoying the bakery and the gardens... we decided to head further north for an adventure. We decided to go trout fishing in the rivers running down from the Himalayas! It was a great time... my first time trout fishing! I didn't catch any fish but in all we caught 4 and we each got a tasty treat. :)

We also got to enjoy some hiking up in the hills that still had snow cover. We hiked nearby and sometimes through villages up in the hills. It was a great time. We just got back yesterday and we are resting up now and getting ready for next weeks language classes again. I will have a full week of classes and then I get to head off again for another 'adventure'.

I have the opportunity to go to a leadership conference in Thailand. I will be there for two weeks and I've planned a few extra days to debrief after. The conference is pretty intensive and they cover a lot in two weeks. I am looking forward to it... I think I will learn a lot and enjoy the material. My director seems to think that I may have some leadership skills and it was he that encouraged me to attend this conference. We'll see. :) I'll be missing another two and a half weeks of language school and I'm a little worried about that. I've already been a way for two and half weeks with our last trip to Chandigarh and Manali. I will just have to be diligent this week and make sure I take my Hindi books with me when I go to Thailand.

Well... to those of you who read this... thanks for hangin in there. If you are at all interested in Facebook... look me up. I post pictures occasionally there (more often than here). It's a great way to stay in touch too. :)

Catch ya later! Hopefully soon! :)