6th November (after Agra trip)

I think, laziness is my biggest sin. I have had the time to write, the desire to write but I am just too lazy. I need to push myself to start writing every week (again), no matter what happens. I’m also determined to start writing a diary every day.

To get back to reporting my year in India…Our Agra trip is over now. It was amazing, of course. There is no way to describe Taj Mahal in words, nor can the overwhelming beauty of it be seen from the pictures, you must go and see it yourself. In addition to Taj, we saw quite a few beautiful places such as Fatehpur Sikri (a mosque and the Emperor’s palace) and Baby Taj. Although I am extremely happy to have been on the trip and to have seen what I saw, I must say that my appetite for traveling and tourism has been seriously decreased because in Agra I saw the tourists (in fact, I WAS a tourist over there) and I felt stupid and humiliated because everybody thought, we were one of them, somehow there is something unpleasant in that I can’t properly explain what I felt or why I felt it but I can say that I do not want to be taken as a tourist in India ( at least not yet). However the trip had a very positive effect on in a sense that I feel more concentrated and sure about what I want from my experience.

Me and Sukhbir, we have finally joined the gym. That is a major accomplishment since it took me about 3 months to get him this far. The gym is quite well equipped and we have personal trainers in the reach of an arm. The gym has (after a 3-day trial) made a custom schedule for us, which is great.

The school started again on last Tuesday. DPS has set in a new rule according to which we have to pay a fine of 100 rupees for every day we are absent. This is the height of ridiculousness since we are already paying to go to school. I shall see how Sanjeev Sir (my class teacher) will try to make me pay, since I was absent today.

8th November might see me in Chandigarh, watching the India vs. Pakistan cricket match if Aajushmaan can get us tickets. I’m truly looking forward to seeing that and hoping that the inner-political crisis in Pakistan will not have an effect on the game.