March Blog
To start things off for this blog I need to cover out last week in Mumbai back in February. It seems like such a long time since we have been in Mumbai! Our last week in Mumbai was a good time. We were able to attend the Valentines celebration of Eden Springs on the night before we left to come back here to Delhi! It was a great time of visiting with all of our friends we met had met at Eden Springs and also telling them all goodbye. We enjoyed our time in Mumbai very much and hope one day to visit again!
Now back to March in Delhi. As most of you have read we spent the last week of February and the first week of March in New Zealand. We arrived back in Delhi on Friday March 6th. I hadn't realized that we would be returning on the night of Holi. We were greeted at the airport by our driver and got to partake in a little bit of of Holi. We were quite tired when we reached home and were definitely ready for our bed here in Delhi! That weekend we did a little bit of cleaning and got to make it back to our church here in Delhi.
It was back to work for Kaysi once we returned from New Zealand! March was a very busy month for her getting back into the swing of things. After a week of work we welcomed in Gregg Johnson here to Delhi, who was here to teach a couple of courses in the clinic. He is one of the founders of the Institute of Physical Art (which is who recommended Kaysi for the job here in India as well as who she will be under in her upcoming Fellowship Program). It was great to get to meet him as well as have dinner a couple of times throughout the week. It was a busy week of training for the IPTs and Kaysi and the other CFMT’s as they had a full week of courses and treating. The week was capped off by a great dinner out with all of the IPTs and some of the staff from Vardan at Barbeque Nation, where I ate way too much but it was soo good!!
The weather here has started to warm up nicely and with that I have been able to take advantage of that and play a couple of rounds of golf with my friend Peter. The first round we played I used the borrowed clubs from one of Kaysi’s patients and then was able to return them to him before we head back to the US. The second round I borrowed Peter’s wife Eddy’s clubs. The second round we played at Karma Lakelands which was an awesome and beautiful 9 hole course! The caddy we had for the day towards the end of the day says “I think these are ladies clubs…” I wonder what gave it away? I think it might have been the pink shafts on all of the clubs! Either way, I am certainly sure that it was the best round of golf I’ve played in a long time, if not ever! I’m not sure what that says about me… but I’ll play with pink golf clubs for the rest of my life if I play that way! Haha!!!
With April fast approaching we also had to get our visas extended so that Kaysi could complete her contract. It is always an adventure when we get to go to the FRRO offices! I had gotten all of the paper work filled out and papers submitted earlier in the week and we had an appointment for Friday morning of this past week. I was having some issues with the website when I was uploading documents and once we got almost through the whole process at FRRO we were informed that all of the needed forms had not been uploaded. Thankfully we had one of Kaysi’s coworkers with us to help with the process, but unfortunately we had to return to the office fill out all of the paper work again and submit everything once again and then return to FRRO. Thankfully once we returned all of the paper work was submitted and our visas were extended so Kaysi can finish out her contract and we won't get deported! I did feel pretty bad for Kaysi’s co-worker Anupam because I had wasted almost his whole day in what should have just been a quick morning visit to the FRRO. Super glad that is all taken care of!
So with March over we have now completed 11months here in India! Its crazy just how fast time has flown by. It seems just like yesterday that Kaysi and I were saying good bye to friends and family. We are definitely excited about being able to see all of our friends and family back in the US, but we are cherishing each day that we have here in India to spend with the many friends we have made over the last year! Thanks for joining us on this journey so far and I look forward to what is in store for us our last month here in India!
