My last night in Nepal, it’s crazy how the semester has already gone by so fast. I have cried, adapted to my new environment, made friends, traveled on often unsafe mountain flights, and have fought the crazy amount of foreign insects in South India.
During my ISP period I made some very close friendships, and just had a great experience overall. Now that my 40 page book and presentation is all over…. I can breathe again. I knew coming into this program this would be a challenge and I couldn’t be more excited that I exceeded my personal expectations for myself.
Sitting here on my last night in Nepal I am not extremly sad, but I will be tomorrow night as my flight leaves from Kathmandu. I am excited to go home and see my family… No random people coming up to me giving me over priced henna, but also no more fun nights at my homestay.
Speaking of homestays, I just had dinner with one of my friends from my class here in Nepal. Her family told me my future using a normal deck of cards. The first card is black suggesting I have a bumpy road ahead, the next card, a red King meaning I am protected by God and others through this rough path ahead… And the third card black meaning black money… Not in a sense that I will have stolen money or anything but in a sense that I will be very poor… But on the bright side as my life goes on it will get better, I will achieve more success and more wealth. I have someone waiting for me to come home who really cares about me and together we will have a life of limited suffering.
Hearing this prediction worried me at first but then made me excited for my life ahead. So I take this new knowledge with a grain of salt and without worry. I can only live life in the moment as the nuns at Kopan Nunnery have taught me. So that is just what I will do.
