Hotel living

You know how you feel when you are at a hotel? You are either out-and-about doing whatever you are doing in that city (sightseeing, working, attending a conference);  but when you are in the hotel itself, life is much less hectic than “real life.” No closets to clean, papers to sort, dishes to wash, none of those projects on the “to do list” of life. Life in our Delhi apartment is not dissimilar. We don’t have all the detritus of our “real lives” with us (as described in one of the earlier blog entries), and so you don’t have major sorting to do at all times. Once you unpack your belongings and put them in your new closets, you are done….Here I don’t have the kids’ artwork from 10 years back that I still need to scan or organize or archive in some more usable fashion. And there is our maid, Chanana, who does all of the household cleaning, cooking, washing, ironing…which makes this also akin to hotel living, where you don’t need to wash your own dishes or cook your own food. Plus you have no family here, and you don’t know many people; so you aren’t “catching up” with friends and family; inviting them to your house and going to theirs…It is one of the disorienting features of an overseas assignment.