I had a pretty frank conversation with my mother a few minutes ago.  She asked me if I’m feeling depressed.  i can’t lie, I’ve definitely been feeling depressed.  I’ve been using sugar and caffeine to prop me up, but I have a suspicion it’s just making things worse. I’m looking forward to going home and will, in all likelihood, do that sooner rather than later.  I am going to try to enjoy the rest of this trip and make the most out of India. 

I’m not super depressed or anything, but I don’t have a lot of energy and I totally don’t feel like being around people.  I also don’t really feel like doing much of anything.  I am going to try to make the most of it and enjoy India. In all likelihood I won’t stay too long.  

I hired a program person to be my guide for a few days this coming week.  We are going to bum around Pokhara tomorrow and he’s going to take me around to see the sights.  On Monday we are going to leave and go trekking for a few days. I figure I’d might as well do all the things I want to do before leaving Nepal now, rather than waiting until my the month I’ve paid for this apartment is up.  Trekking should be awesome and it’ll be nice to have someone else there.  I really don’t think I’d make trekking happen right now if I was trying to figure it out on my own.  I certainly don’t want to leave Nepal without doing some trekking, though.  This will be a nice compromise.  He also suggested doing a few homestays which I think will be a good experience.  I’m excited to do something different and get out of this apartment for a few days.  It should be a great!

Other than that, today was another variation of the basically the same day I’ve been living.  I talked to Venus for a while which was actually pretty nice.  I ran out of credit on my phone, though, which is a bit annoying.  Oh well.  I can buy some more tomorrow.