first ever.

hi friends!

this is my first ever blog post on my first ever blog. let me honest: i wanted to start blogging earlier (as in, two years or so earlier), but i convinced myself blogs were for the slightly pretentious and/or geeky--and that i was too low tech. now i've come to terms with the fact that the internet is here to stay (and that i, like most of us, am obsessed with it), that blogging is designed for everyone, and that i have both pretentious and geeky tendencies (occasionally). also, in a conversation on the phone this morning, my grandfather informed me that he knows what a wiki is, so i decided it was now or never to get with the times. and blog.

so, hello, welcome, and tashi delek. i'll be using this as a space to write about my experiences in india and nepal, primarily in tibetan exile communities. if i get around to it, i might post some of the writing i've done during previous trips, but for now, you can expect current updates as i tour a group of teenagers around south asia, employed by a company we will from this point on refer to as 'Dragons.' my flight to Delhi is tomorrow and in typical emma tobin-style, i saved writing this for (almost) the last possible second. so be it.

oh... i wish i were starting this on a funnier or more insightful foot. but who's funny or insightful when it's the midnight before an international flight and she has yet to finish packing? some other blogger. may you find her and enjoy her blog.

i leave you with love and love and love and the hope that pre-trip insomnia doesn't set in,
xo,
e.