My Favorite!

I’m just gonna call it what it is – the most appropriate name for this post would probably be: An Ode to Violet, but that’s awkward hahahahaha. Anyway, this is my homie. And it made my day/week/month/year that she came to India to see me. Although I have already talked about the visits of my friends to India, I feel the need to say a few words separately about this one because her trip/visit was especially meaningful to me. Violet’s visit was so special because during my time in India, she has been the one (in conjunction with Jesus of course) taking very good care of me and who made this trip possible (and by possible, I mean she kept me sane lol). With this being my first time out of the country, and for nine months no less, I knew that it would be difficult being away from family, friends and all things familiar for so long. Luckily for me, homesickness was at a minimum and I have this girl to thank for that. She went out of her way to check in on me regularly, she sent me my favorite magazines each month, we burned up a ton of minutes on both of our phones at all kinds of crazy hours, we skyped our behinds off . . . the list goes on. And then on top of all of that, she flew ALL the way to India, just to see me!!! I mean I was too excited to hang out with this girl – you have no idea!

Aside from how awesome of a friend she’s been during this time and how unimaginably excited I was to see her, the coolest thing about her visit was her desire to really get into this whole India thing. She demanded a sari, which I had to pick out and have tailored before her arrival, so that she could wear it to the Taj Mahal. She wanted henna hands. She wanted to get a salwar kameez suit tailored. She would not let me keep her away from street food. An elephant ride was put on the agenda all the way back in November. Yes, this girl was serious about getting as much out of India as she possibly could and I did my best to make sure she got it all :-) At the end of the day, I am so happy she came and I am glad that I got share this experience with her :-) #thatisall.