Only a week left?

These past few days have sort of been a blur.... Monday was our first day with a free afternoon, so myself and a few other people came up to McLeod Ganj - which is sort of a "mini Tibet" in India. This is the town where the Dalai Lama lives, and is also home to hundreds of Tibetan refugees. And you can really see the cultural influence and ramification of it here. It hardly feels like India, and the streets are filled with people selling things to make money to send to their family over in Tibet. Lots of anti-China sentiment present, obviously, but a really interesting place. Another odd thing is the level of Westerners here - people from all over the world that come to live here and to visit here. Just walking up and down the streets you can here people speaking in Spanish, French, English, German, Russian, and much more..what an interesting place.
Tuesday and Wednesday were sort of rough days. I woke up at about 5 a.m. on Tuesday feeling incredibly, incredibly sick and nauseous, and ran back and forth from the bathroom all morning. So, needless to say, I spent most of the day in bed taking plenty of medication and getting lots of rest on both days. I'm glad that it's all out of my system, but it was sort of a bummer missing out on being out and about those days. Thankfully two other girls in my flat were also sick, so I did have plenty of company.
Today was supposed to be quite the monumental day, because we were all scheduled to get out of our placements early to go see the Dalai Lama speak at the Buddhist temple!! Unfortunately, the time was changed without us knowing, and now we can't make it! However we are getting a chance later today to talk with a Tibetan lama, which should be a really great experience. It was however really an amazing thing to sit in the temple surrounded by thousands of Tibetan monks, to see them praying and hear them chanting....it was a rather peaceful experience.
Tomorrow myself and a few friends are off to Amritsar, in the state of Punjab (about a 6 hr. drive) to see the Golden Temple and also the ceremony at the border between India and Pakistan, which should be really exciting! Hopefully when I get back I will have some awesome stories to post up here.
Until then......namaste guys, namaste.