Two more weeks to go, and that will be it.....we shall leave India on the 26th of May, after 5 years, 9 months, and 26 days...

I slowly start to realise that I am actually going and NOT coming back, for a while at least, and suddenly everything I do is the last time...the last time I buy vegetables from my favourite vegetable-man Mukesh (picture), the last time I gaze at all the herbs and spices and the abundance of lentils and colourful food-items of which I still have not learned the name....the last time I order handbags (a girl can never have too many handbags...I know, it's awful), the last time I buy all these little beautiful presents for the people back home, the last time someone comes to my home to take measurement in order to make something - a sari this time, because I have decided that I cannot have lived in India for almost six years without having a sari!

I will miss India's weird contrasts, it's colour, it's distinctive smell of spices, it's theatre on the road every day, the head wiggles, the big smiles, the little streets of Old Delhi, the monuments that seem to be everywhere, forgotten as they are....

I will NOT miss the noise, the honking, the absolute filth everywhere, the fact that crossing the street is a hazardous undertaking even in the quiet neighbourhood that we live in now, and the fact that things are never quite the way you agreed they would be...

But I have gotten to know myself here. India is so different, so weird at times, so exotic, that one cannot help but fall back onto one's own values and beliefs. India is one giant mirror and my period here has been a continuous learning experience, wether I liked it or not.
I have met many special people and I have made a couple of real good friends. I leave here enriched and bigger than I was....also literally (one of India's downsides...too many people that do everything for you so you end up moving too little). I have learned to take things much more relaxed than I used to do, because in India, nothing ever happens as planned. I have learned to take the signals from my body serious because here, a bug can easily turn into a deadly desease. I have even started wiggling my head myself...a very natural gesture, I might add. I have had an incredible time and I realise that I haven't seen half of what I had wanted to see and didn't do half of what I wanted to do...

And I must admit that now that my time is up, I can truly say: India IS Incredible. And I will miss it.