My thesis material is collected, all interviews are finished, my backpack is almost full again and my room needs an awful lot of cleaning. It is my last day here in Guwahati before I take the train to Darjeeling and a short vacation before returning home to finish the thesis.<\/p>\n
Though I knew the day would come and 10 weeks of MFS seemed like a reasonable time frame, I am still surprised by how<\/em> fast the time actually passed.\u00a0As I am packing down my stuff piece by piece I cannot help but thinking ”what just happened?!” and I am honestly a bit sad to leave. It has mainly to do with all the amazing people I have met here but it also feels weird to leave all the organizations and power women that have been so helpful to me. I know I cannot change the world but I kind of have this ”so what happens now?” feeling about leaving. The organizations will continue their work and I will go home, unable to do much for them from the distance. It is a horribly annoying feeling. The world is full of good causes and organizations working for human rights but\u00a0seeing the actual work, challenges and victories of the Assamese women’s organizations makes me feel even more attached to exactly these people.<\/p>\n But I am leaving tomorrow and that’s just how it is. After all, I am also looking forward to see friends and family at home again soon. I had a bit of money left from the MFS scholarship so they will now become donations to all the organizations that have helped me writing my thesis. I might be repeating myself but the teams from NEN, PBET, WeDo, FST, NEthing, Yuva and\u00a0the Jorhat Boat Clinic are probably among the coolest I have met and they are doing a really good job here in Assam. Moreover,\u00a0this state is just a nice place to be (though the summer heat is getting too much for me now) so I\u00a0 am pretty sure I will find my way back to visit someday!<\/p>\n See you soon, Assam. Moi tumak bhal pau!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My thesis material is collected, all interviews are finished, my backpack is almost full again and my room needs an awful lot of cleaning. It is my last day here in Guwahati before I take the train to Darjeeling and a short vacation before returning home to finish the thesis. Though I knew the day … <\/p>\n