Category Archives: Wanderings
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Video: Kaiya’s Fourth Month
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Throwing Color, Celebrating Holi
Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dona in India, WanderingsThere’s nothing better than the annual festival of color. Holi is celebrated across India every March and we specifically planned our trip this year to coincide. I’ll let the video do the talking this time.
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 21
Posted on March 7, 2012 by Dona in India, Parenting, WanderingsWe’re into the last week of our time here and it’s going to be bittersweet having to say goodbye. The inner workings, the drama, the stories, the soul of the Gupta family have revealed themselves to me a bit more this trip. Understanding more Hindi has helped me to begin talking and at the very [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 20
Posted on February 29, 2012 by Dona in India, Parenting, WanderingsKaiya’s Happenings This Week: India has a love affair with babies, especially fair skinned ones that belong to a foreigner. Kaiya attracts attention everywhere we go, mostly of the photo-snapping, cheek pinching, ‘let me hold her’ variety. At first I thought I’d try to keep tabs on how many strangers held her during our trip, [...]
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Kaiya’s First Year: Week 19
Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dona in India, Parenting, WanderingsI’ve managed to fall behind on these weekly updates and the weeks seem to be bleeding together, so here’s a quick recap of what we’ve been up to since we last checked in. Took the train from Delhi to Calicut in Northern Kerala. Spent a day in Calicut, but because of a political strike there [...]
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Cow Poop & Almond Smoke
Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dona in India, Parenting, Wanderings“Ohhh, she looks like a baby doll. Beti, beti, beti boht payar hai!” an unknown relative squeals as she pinches Kaiya cheeks and snuggles her up close. The living room has been overtaken by 25 female relatives who have come to wish Kaiya a lifetime full of happiness and good luck. Kaiya is passed around [...]
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Kaiya’s Weekly Series: Week 16
Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dona in India, WanderingsI had to triple check that it’s actually Wednesday today. I’m not entirely sure how it happened or where the time went, but our alarm clock went off at 4:30am Sunday morning at home in Victoria and now suddenly it’s Wednesday and we’re in Firozabad. Somehow between 5 airplane meals, endless ticket counters, and entertaining [...]
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Looking Back, Looking Forward. Hello 2012.
Posted on January 6, 2012 by Dona in WanderingsIt’s no stretch to say that the past year and a half has been by far, the biggest 18 months of my life. Here’s a quick recap: August 2010: Vibhu and I both quit our secure, well-paying albeit incredibly boring and unfulfilling jobs in PEI September 2010: Sell just about everything we own, pack up [...]
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Blogging Woes
Posted on June 19, 2011 by Dona in WanderingsOver the past two weeks, my blog has decided to throw a series of adolescent worthy tantrums that have spiraled us into the depths of blogging hell. There were two incidents where we thought we’d lost everything–every photo, every story, every comment–written over the course of the past two years. But luckily, Vibhu pulled out [...]
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Back in Canada, An Update
Posted on February 26, 2011 by Dona in WanderingsThe last time we were in Victoria we had just driven 8,000km along the Queen’s Highway from Charlottetown, PEI to the BC coast. In all of our online research, Vancouver Island with its vast expanses of remote mountains, its wild coastline, and of course, its proximity to California and Oregon (where my family lives), made [...]
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