First, the countdown:
- 2 weeks left in Oguz
- 8 days of school
- 19 days left in Azerbaijan
- many difficult goodbyes to say
- 2 final parties to throw for my kids–Halloween and a slumber party for my awesome girls
- 2 bags to pack
- 9102983 things to give away/get rid of
- 4 days of farewell partying in Baku with PCVs
- 2 visas to obtain
- 1 plane to catch
Then I’m off to HINDUSTAN (हिंदुस्तान) (India)!!! for an as-yet undetermined amount of time.
Things I’ll miss about Azerbaijan
1. Pomegranates, which are at the height of Awesomeness right now, so I’m eating an average of two per day
2. Living very very close to everything I really need for daily life
3. Guesting, hanging out with my host mom
4. Playing Frisbee and baseball with my kids
5. Obscene amounts of free time/freedom
6. Wearing the same thing to work every day for a week
7. Neighbors and friends who take care of me like their own child
8. Good times in the classroom (both of them)
9. Fresh local produce. Cheap.
10. Being comfortable in a second language
11. Hanging out with PCVs, smoking hookah, playing games, sharing poop stories, making other expats uncomfortable
Things I can’t wait for in India:
1. Pretending like I’m in a Bollywood movie and that Shahrukh Khan will come and sweep me off my feet at any moment 
2. Gaining a thousand pounds by eating as much amazing food as possible
3. Living on <$15 per day
4. Yoga, meditation from the source
5. Masala chai, every day
6. Wearing a saree
7. Finding a rich computer engineer (or doctor?), winning the approval of his mother (I’ve been practicing my roti-making skills!), marrying him, and bringing him back to America where we’ll live happily ever after in a mansion with an Indian cook who makes me food every day. (And also my life will be a Bollywood movie.)
Things I’m excited for in America
1. FOOD
2. Having a washing machine
3. Chilling on the farm for a while, helping my parents with the garden
4. Being able to take a shower, whenever I want, as often as I want.
5. Picking up the fiddle again
6. Going skiing, backpacking, rafting, hiking, biking, kayaking in my beautiful beautiful West Virginia hills
7. Driving
8. Finding the rest of my wardrobe/belongings
9. Seeing all my little cousins who have been born/become real people since I left
10. Buying a juicer and making tons of juice
: ) Life is going to be crazy for the next little while ( :
Somewhere between here and there 