pps - from Nepal

I have to have to mention that Hannah and I arrived 1 hour early BEFORE the 2 hours prior to the flight departure time at the Nepal airport.

Somehow, I was on watching the time, and I got confused between quarter to 1 and quarter to 2. Anyways... it's just a fact for those of you who know it just doesn't happen very often with me:-)

On the topic of airports...
pps - flying into Hyderabad on Tuesday was interesting. The new international airport has been constructed, and is semi functioning. I saw my arrival as arriving into India for the first time and pictured how I would feel with what I saw!

The first 30 mins was great. The luggage was a little more delayed than a normal flight, and then there were people asking you if you needed any help...and I managed to make my way out without any drama's and found the free pink bus which took me to to the CHEAP ride into town, as opposed to the bus that I would've caught if I was a tourist or a short stay missionary. The drive out of the airport was lovely, there are fields of gardens on both sides of the road for at least 2 km's. Most of these are still being planted, and the plants haven't quite reached maturity yet, but it IS going to look gorgeous once they start to grow, provided they are all watered.

And then you get a little further out, and the road becomes uneven, and there's litter on the road, and little kids not wearing much, some random cows crossing the street and a man was relieving himself on the wall!!! And the village life, lower class Hyderabadi life becomes very obvious.

Interesting through someone elses eye's. But this is what I feel is normal right now, having been here nearly 6 months!! Last night Sarah and I walked past a couple sleeping on the pavement. It didn't seem strange. We knew they had nowhere else to go. I also watched a young person back out a car from a very expensive jewellery shop and thought, wow, he's lucky to be rich.
Perspectives change quite quickly. I tell people here when I'm buying fruit that I'm not going to pay the extra they added because I have white skin that I'm NOT a tourist, and am living in India. They generally take it well:-)

I know I'm going to be appalled by how much things cost to buy back in the West!!