Home. Yes, we've returned to Canada, it's been about two weeks now. All the things we left behind, the paperwork and the rest of the work, things pile(d) up. It's been two weeks of adjusting back to the day and night difference, which took much longer than expected, it's been two weeks of just adjusting.
I've often heard travellers talk about the post-culture shock, the one that comes after returning home, especially from a place they have loved as much as I loved India. Coming home was hard, it's colder, quieter, and I obsessively convert all of the money I'm spending into rupees and think about what I could be doing with that same money, in Maher, in India. It's silly and it's painfully obvious, to my friends, and to my family, how much I'm missing the place.
Things here are just starting up, Starlight Montessori is running out of the living room, the next step is getting properly licensed, something I've been working on for some time now, to tap into some government funds and get on the list, the kids who need it most.
India keeps in touch, and the teachers in the Montessori classroom we left behind are busy, they take multiple classes for the classroom daily, and the children's excitement is infectious. They are all excited, all positive on the phone, listing the improvements of their students and their enthusiasm for learning. We did some crafts in the classroom while we were there, and those crafts were used as decorations a multi-center celebration for Sister Lucy's birthday. Sister Lucy being the founder of Maher.
It's encouraging, I'm encouraged and you should be too. Here's their website (http://www.maherashram.org/?q=node/131), and a list of their most urgent needs. Can you help?
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