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Dear friends and family,
Well, you called for a blog, so you will get a blog! HA! And I will begin on the plane, just to make sure I don't procrastinate it into oblivion.
As many of you may know, I felt it was hard to leave Montreal yesterday. I have been enjoying my time there over the past few months. The warm summer weather is not nearly as easy to leave as was the piles of snow I left last December! But as I sit here on the flight from Paris to Bangalore, watching “Geovision” and working on my proposal, I realize I am looking forward to the work waiting for me when I land. I don't know a lot about how the actual research process will be, but the one thing I know for sure is that it will be different from working in my cubicle in Montreal. And I look forward to the change.
A side note about “geovision,” a wonderful part of flying these days. Instead of watching bad plane movies, I can watch a map with the progress of the plane charted across it. So I am able to connect what I see out of the window of the plane with a political boundary. With a name of a city, a body of water, a mountain range. And interspersed with the map that zooms in and out are satellite images of various interesting features near where the trajectory of the plane crosses. Such as the Indus Delta in Pakistan, which is the current feature. Earlier in the flight I had a spectacular view out the window of the plane of Romania, the Black Sea, and then Turkey. Geographic connections that I had never made in my head before, that yes, of course, Romania and Turkey share an inland sea. And the mountain ranges that we have crossed! I realize how little real understanding I have of any place that I have not been to. Which is a good thing, really.
Ah, plane meal two has arrived, must put this little story on hold.