Back to School

In the past one month, I don't know how many times I have been asked this question.

So after a handshake, "how does it feel to be back at school".

Good! Awesome!

But there is something that remains to be said and am saying it here..

Be prepared to roll your own chappatis, wash you own clothes, chop vegetables, buy groceries, make a list of things that are about to end, make separate shopping lists for the Indian Store and the Local Store, catch up on writing/reading assignments, learn to wax, thread and the works because the damn thing is just too expensive here ..

 

the only thing am not going to do here on my own is a haircut>

So I have been told that they thread in New York. 

Something on which I have never spent more than Rs 20/- now, possibly could be done at $12/- that too if I go to New York

I am still badly oriented to the dollar. Very badly. And miss the ease of understanding the lovely Indian rupee with the familiar Gandhi ji on one side.

I feel as if I am directing a road show..Live.

As my friend some days back said, " I wish I had multiple hands like Indian goddesses..so with one I could lug the mac, with the other I could clutch the grocery bag and with the third I could pull out the house keys and somehow get into the house".