Easter Holi Days
The past week has been one of many cultural celebrations and festivals, significant days, high days and holidays, a long weekend, family traditions, and special visits. All crammed into 6 days!!! These are the occasions that accentuate the complexity of expat life: You look forward to the excitement of new and strange celebrations and festivals like Holi, but want to share it with your "closests" and "dearests" who are far away. They envy you, watching you experience the exotic in a far-away land. Then there's a family birthday, like my mother's 83rd and my nephew's... uhm...... 21st? on 23 and 24 March. Oh it wasn't as exciting as your weekend, they say. It was just the family and close friends. We just went to the place where everybody knows your name, we just had the usual. Maybe an added lemon meringue pie. An extra steak or two. Nothing as exotic as what you had... And then there's Easter... and fami...