Pre-New Delhi post (a.k.a. "Operation Waltzing Matilda") 7/4/10 2:06--2:34am

Hello friends and acquaintances (and parents of friends and acquaintances). If you are reading this, you are probably already aware that I am going back to India! And what's more, I'm going with my dearest-darling and partner in crime Ms. April Spain on this adventure (the title of which --for some completely unrelated reason-- we are calling "Operation Waltzing Matilda").

April and I are leaving July 7th (Wednesday) to New Delhi and will be helping out in a Boys home and possibly some orphanages and some various ministries by torturing or whatever services we can offer. People often ask me what we are doing over there, and I don't know what to tell them but that we will do anything that we can. I told April the other day that some (specific) people want a "concrete" idea of what we will be doing in India, but the problem that I'm having with that explanation is that India is made of "silly-puddy". Speaking from previous experience I'd say that anything can (and will) happen and we just need to be sensitive to the people and places who and in which are needed.

April will be back in Fresno in early August so she can go back to school (nerd). I, however, was unexpectedly dropped from ALL of the classes I had registered for next semester; I never received a notice in the mail that told me when to pay for my classes, so I didn't. This came conveniently to me right after I searched the heavens for another opportunity and/or excuse to return to the people and place that my heart lives and breaks for.

I will be home on October 2oth and my school won't start till mid January; this means that when I get home I'll have 3 months of school free time that I am more than willing to use for more adventures: whether that means backpacking or many lonely nights watching nick-at-night. So if anyone is interested in an adventurous co-op when I get back, let me know. Book your "Josiah time" now, because the time slots are just disappearing like THAT.