I know we haven’t been able to keep the site updated as often as we can. Life has been really busy for the past one year. The updates have slowed down to a trickle but we want to let everyone know that this site is a very important thing in our lives and we will try to keep this going as long as we are together. We want this site to be a proof that long distance relationships indeed work if you have the patience.
After nearly 4 years of staying apart and meeting once every year (for a few hours) perhaps, we have finally had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together in August of 2007. I finally came to US as a graduate student in Environmental Engg and the first thing I did was fly to Archana’s place. We had about 10 days to spend together and that was quite a long time. In those 10 days, we had gone shopping, visited places and cried ourselves to sleep but not for one moment did we feel like we did not belong together.
And I had to fly back to East coast to continue the purpose of my arrival in USA. Life as a graduate student is not easy. It is time consuming and you have not a moment to do anything but study. I was a really serious gamer before I came to USA. I would spend at least a couple of hours every day playing video games but not anymore. There is so much to this country but I would be lying if I said that I really love it here. But after an year’s time, I can safely say that this place is growing on me. I had several complaints from the taste of milk to the time of sunset. How expensive everything is when you convert everything to rupees. In spite of all the complaints, I really love the neatness and the organized traffic in this country. Driving in India after driving in these conditions is suicide. But that is the subject of another blog.
During the one year of my stay in USA, we have met twice already and spent more than a month’s time together. There were moments of true happiness, togetherness and also there were moments of angst and frustration. But even in all this, life felt good. We had a first hand experience of each other’s stubbornness and some issues are yet to be resolved and probably will take a while to be. It made me realize how much we care about each other and how much we are willing to sacrifice to be together. Like I said, life is good with Archana (so is her food 
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