Firstly, thank you to everyone for the comments – they bring me many smiles (especially since I am usually sleepily checking my email at 7am…we wake up super duper early here). A special hello to all my friends at UBC and family around Canada – miss you all very very much. Also a special congratulations to J&J on their wedding….so wish I could have been there to celebrate with you.
Bistarai, bistaarai is the phrase I referred to in my last post which means “slowly, slowly” and it couldn’t feel more like a mantra. Everything is moving slowly for me – time passes slowly, life passes slowly, culture shock is passing slowly.
I love reading your and Rex’s blog…it puts a smile on my face!! Everything sounds so new and different…and I love your new mantra…so true! I have been thinking about you both a lot and will be this weekend, as I am sure I will spend a great deal of it finally writing my paper on the Nepali language. I have to compare it to English (in terms of phonology), so if you have noticed any differences let me know!! 🙂 I’ll be sure to send it your way once I finish it.
Know that I think of you both often and am sending my love and big hugs from the great state of Ohio!! Love you!
A special hello back from one member of the UBC family that misses you dearly. 🙂 I look forward to your return–to a time when you can teach me how to move, think, and act more bistaarai, bistaarai. I think it must be good for the soul.