dreaming about india

Found this .gif on Tumblr today and I thought it was incredibly appropriate. Although I'm in the middle of packing for my trip to the Dominican Republic, I find myself thinking about India almost non-stop. I have so many things to do before my semester abroad including:

• Get a student visa, which is largely dependent on when my program sends me the materials I need and when I can get my booty down to the Indian consulate.
• Finish the medical paperwork, including my WHO vaccination card.
• Pack (all over again).
• Learn the Hindi alphabet, also called Devanagari script.
• Read one (if not two) books, and write a 3-page paper on it. According to my Kindle, I'm about 47% through In Spite of the Gods.
• Figure out how to use that Flip camera that Tufts is letting me borrow.
• Say good-bye to all of my friends, my family and my puppy.

But I need to focus on my trip to the DR for the time being, hard as it is to focus right now with so many dates and to-do lists running around my mind. I'll figure it out eventually, and hopefully I'll be able to figure it out before I get on another plane.