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Restless Legs Syndrome!

I am extremely restless and I'll chalk it up to the long trip I had yesterday. Sitting down for ages seems to have set off some Dopamine receptors in my brain. I have been indoors throughout the day and maybe I should have gone out to relieve my extreme boredom. Nothing seems to satisfy, not the language post I put up, not the books I am supposed to be studying, not the phone calls with friends, nothing at all. It's times like this I wish I had gone out and done something fun! I sat down with my books aiming to study hard but I just realized that it might have helped if I threw the books to the wind today and gone out sightseeing for example. I have watched the hours flit by and seen my goals to read several chapters from my textbook drop by the way side. And I realize that sometimes, just sometimes, a strict regimen does not need to be adhered to, instead the child on the inside should be indulged. So a few minutes from now I'll head out of the front door, take ...

More Books!

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Could not help myself bought a new pile of books in India. The attraction? They were not expensive. Not all the books are from India though, one of the books is a birthday present, one I picked up enroute and another a recommended text for a course on Leadership. Read just three of them and in the middle of two of them. My favourites are the two by Greg Mortenson- 'Three cups of tea' and its sequel, 'Stones into Schools'.The story of Mortenson's Central Asia Institute shows that education is a far more powerful tool than a Kalashnikov and you make more friends with the blackboard than you will with a mortar!