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A Better Thing

Fortunately during the upcoming week I'll be double-billing with colleague Younghee who co-incidentally starts the next leg of her truly nomadic existence with a move to London.

The photo of her reading the Assignments Aboard Times taken during last year's study in Mumbai. We're sitting in the lobby of our Dharavi hotel waiting for a breakfast of dhal and sweet lassi to arrive, watching the pedestrian traffic negotiate the monsoon weather through the doorway, and listening to religious intonations from a shrine along the corridor.

A wiser person than me accurately described our endless journeying as a holiday romance without the holiday, and without the romance - friendships and respect forged from working through blood, sweat and occasionally tears. In a world of change, our framing of history is the only constant.

Writing from Tokyo | April 27, 2008 | Permalink