Some standard knowledge

As a kid your parents teach you all of the standard things you will need to know when you are grown. My parents were no exception and sometimes they even hooked me up with some extras. For example my dad taught me the very important and useful last letter of the alphabet. No not "z". Clearly that is not an extremely useful letter. The real last letter (if you ask my dad anyway) is "gungula". There is no key for it on your keypad so stop looking. Gungula is when you write all of the letters of the English alphabet on top of each other in the same spot (though I suppose there is a version of gungula available in any language). It ends up looking sort of like what you would get if you asked a three year old to draw you a picture of a cat (but if you use the Hindi alphabet it looks like a cow...wierd). Anyway, why is that letter so useful? It is all incusive, it means everything and anything all at the same time. That is why I have decided that it is the only word/letter of the alphabet to describe what I will be doing in the next few/several months of my life. In 12 days I will be leaving the US to travel around the globe for an indefinite number of days. Since I havent a clue what is in store for me, I imagine it will be a life changing time full of trials, joys, adventures, homesickness, discovery, amazement, food poisoning (ok well I really hope not), and...EVERYTHING! This is where I will update about where I am and what I'm doing. Please keep in touch via e-mail, because as I mentioned already, I'm sure I'll be homesick at times because I'll really miss all of you!