i get by with a little help from my friends.

This is a very special shout out THANK YOU post. A few months on the other side of the world could have been isolating, I could have been homesick...but thanks to everyone who so generously sent care packages, or letters (somebody tell Grandma she got a thank you...from a website.), or emails. These little reminders of home have meant the world to me.

The Starbucks Via instant coffee definitely made me a better intern - thanks parents! Thanks Steeles!

The box that was overflowing with leggings (wardrobe staple), twizzlers, and (inexplicably) a donkey toy from a Happy Meal...welp it certainly made me Happy! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Remember when I posted about the veritable electronics graveyard that was my life, after all my things got monsooned? My heart overflowed with joy the day a brand new, bright pink iPod arrived in the mail! Matt, you've saved my life both at work...

...and during the auto-rickshaw commute!

Yall remember Leah, the little girl who lives on the sidewalk near the office? Every little girl should have a special (preferably pink, whale-shaped) stuffed animal. Thanks William - your thoughtfulness lit up Leah's face today. She looked so curious at first, when I handed her the toy. But then, as she turned it over and over in her tiny hands, she looked up at me and just grinned, the way I child should grin - without a care in the world.

A million thanks.

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