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		<title>One last thing&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started this blog about a year and a half ago. I had just accepted a position for the government of Abu Dhabi as a licensed teacher in an Emirate-wide educational reform. It was a huge undertaking. The professional and personal experience was amazing, filled with a lot of hurdles and change. However, Abu Dhabi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=1067&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Kisses and the Cat Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Kisses&#8230; I was en route home &#8211; sort of &#8211; I only had a month before my flight home for the holidays. I hopped off the plane back into the land of Kandaura clad men and Jimmy Choo wearing abayas. I was back in the UAE. I was there to say good-byes with friends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=1013&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Ma&#8217;salama?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This entry was written in mid-November, however I am posting an abridged version now) I left India just moments ago. Per usual &#8211; I felt ambivalent. It was my 5th trip there, or rather my 5th long trip lasting over a month in duration. I guess one might call me a veteran and it became [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floating Gods on the Ganga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I initially arrived in Rishikesh last month to the monsoon rains, which seemed to linger far too late and far too strong this year. The rains gave the Ganga such a fierce might that I had not experienced before. Trees floated down the river past our Ganga Café views. Sandbars and islands once existent in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=985&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing in the Mountains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I found myself transitioning from crow to handstand (unexpectedly and with the help of my teacher)in yoga class somewhere in Himachal Pradesh. The teacher knew exactly where to place a knee, and hands,  to support and instigate a shift to my suspended thighs, as my legs rose and straightened above my hips. My arms almost fully straightened, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=978&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Destiny. After the smog in Delhi dissipated, after the clouds in Rishikesh cleared, and after the disappointment of Pakistan subsided I was finally able to accept India once more. It took a while. I won’t lie. But I think I am finally here. After 2 days of visa woes in Delhi I hopped on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=960&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visa Denied.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travelled to India from the UAE a few days ago to apply for my Pakistani visa. After 2 days of running around the city and after being denied in the UAE, I have now been officially denied a visa here, in New Delhi. My experiences these past weeks have been something like the &#8220;Soup [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=952&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salam Alaykum Pakistan? &#8211; Not just yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking into the Pakistani Embassy in Abu Dhabi was a bit like walking into someone&#8217;s dilapidated basement: musty, no windows, fluorescent bulbs without covers, walls that hadn&#8217;t been painted in years, and ripped up, stained furniture that was just never going to be fixed. While the front entrance of the Embassy was as grand as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=estherdali.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9111585&amp;post=934&amp;subd=estherdali&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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