Hi guys back home its me, Chase! I have finally been introduced to our blog... and now am being made towrite a post before im allowed on Facebook. So, here goes nothing.
Where to start even. These past Four months -as of last Friday- have been very... how to describe them... stimulating; complex; exhausting; challenging, just to start. To be honest its been some of the most challenging couple months of my life. To begin with i had leave everything (except the tons of stuff we shipped.) Leaving friends was hard, as was leaving the Puget Sound (Mukiltewo Pier), Duthi Park, music, ultimate frisbee, hamburgers, hamburgers, steak, steak, salmon, salmon, bacon, bacon, crab, crab, scallops, scallops, our Wii, Netflix, our Boat and a bed!!! Learning to live without all these things and adapting to life and India been very frustrating and, yes you win parents, insightful and educational. So much has happened and according to my calculations theres A LOT more to come!
So far, in terms of just daily life, school is very nice and a good counterbalance to the constant vigilance needed outside the school gate. We have a house, smaller than i would like and defiantly smaller than my expat friend's houses, but im reminded everyday im lucky to even have a house. Our neighborhood is very nice. Outside we have a bustling park. Yesterday Dad and i went to the park for a little bit and i was spontaneously invited into a football match. Two blocks away is a nice tennis complex. Also we are very near a market which is very convenient. The only thing im missing in my life these days, besides home, is a bed, well and my arm for that matter! First off i dont have a bed yet because we ran into the issue of the ceiling fan when thing about putting in my loft bed which we had brought from Seattle. So, momentarily i sleep on my mattress until we can get someone to make a bed frame. About my arm: Four weeks ago from this upcoming monday i went to American touch football after school. Before it even started, me and my friends were messing around and i was knocked over when going for the ball. I just couldn't break my fall so instead i broke my arm, or my precisely my distil radius. So on top on being on the other side of the world, i have only one arm!!! The life we had recently got settled was then screwed-up and ive had to re transfigure it. Cant wait to get it off monday.
Anywho, thats just the beginning of it. I guess ill start dong this more to catch whoever cares up on my recent events in India. -Chase
Where to start even. These past Four months -as of last Friday- have been very... how to describe them... stimulating; complex; exhausting; challenging, just to start. To be honest its been some of the most challenging couple months of my life. To begin with i had leave everything (except the tons of stuff we shipped.) Leaving friends was hard, as was leaving the Puget Sound (Mukiltewo Pier), Duthi Park, music, ultimate frisbee, hamburgers, hamburgers, steak, steak, salmon, salmon, bacon, bacon, crab, crab, scallops, scallops, our Wii, Netflix, our Boat and a bed!!! Learning to live without all these things and adapting to life and India been very frustrating and, yes you win parents, insightful and educational. So much has happened and according to my calculations theres A LOT more to come!
So far, in terms of just daily life, school is very nice and a good counterbalance to the constant vigilance needed outside the school gate. We have a house, smaller than i would like and defiantly smaller than my expat friend's houses, but im reminded everyday im lucky to even have a house. Our neighborhood is very nice. Outside we have a bustling park. Yesterday Dad and i went to the park for a little bit and i was spontaneously invited into a football match. Two blocks away is a nice tennis complex. Also we are very near a market which is very convenient. The only thing im missing in my life these days, besides home, is a bed, well and my arm for that matter! First off i dont have a bed yet because we ran into the issue of the ceiling fan when thing about putting in my loft bed which we had brought from Seattle. So, momentarily i sleep on my mattress until we can get someone to make a bed frame. About my arm: Four weeks ago from this upcoming monday i went to American touch football after school. Before it even started, me and my friends were messing around and i was knocked over when going for the ball. I just couldn't break my fall so instead i broke my arm, or my precisely my distil radius. So on top on being on the other side of the world, i have only one arm!!! The life we had recently got settled was then screwed-up and ive had to re transfigure it. Cant wait to get it off monday.
Anywho, thats just the beginning of it. I guess ill start dong this more to catch whoever cares up on my recent events in India. -Chase
chase!!! i promise you someday you will look back at your childhood and have the fondest and most distinct memories of living in India. You are so lucky to have such smart and interesting parents to take you there! and i promise....your mom did not pay me to write this or hold back my facebook access until i wrote this. : )
ReplyDeleteyou are a very good writer and I love your vivid details and honesty about how hard living in a foreign country is...hope we can come visit soon and remember seattle will always be there!!!
chase that was me who wrote the above comment. stephanie! your mom's best friend from high school! not sure why it says I am "unknown!" that is almost like saying I am invisible!!!!! stephanie rausser am I! I think it is saying i am unknown because i do not have a google account maybe?xsteph
ReplyDeleteChase,
ReplyDeleteThis is Mark Perkins, a friend of your parents, and I'm here with my daughter Clare (whom you met a couple of times). We loved reading your blog, and were reminded of our own trip to Jaipur last Christmas.
Merry Christmas from Geneva.