December is here, how time flies. I’ve been in India for 10 weeks now, with less than 5 days now before I fly back. I am so going to miss this place!

This month is going to pass by even quicker than all the other months. I’ll fly back to Auckland, shop, eat, watch movies, shop, eat, get my honours application sorted. Then fly back to Malaysia 2 weeks later to shop and eat again, meet baby Kimmy and spend time with friends and family.

It’s all flying by me so fast. I wish I had booked my ticket to stay longer, to spend Christmas and New Year’s Eve here, to visit Udaipur, Nepal, Goa and Mumbai, to spend more time with the people I’ve grown close to, to eat more road side food and read more Indian books, to spend more time in lovely Bikaner, to argue a little more with the rickshaw drivers and to bargain further for cheap scarves. To be honest, I’m not at all ready to leave India.

But that’s okay, I’m thankful to have had a pretty awesome year this year anyway. ;)

And to top it off, I found peace of mind in the most unexpected of places. Who would have thought?

“Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start.

And I bet, and you exploded in my heart.”