The last day at school

Today is my last day at the school and it's only a few days until I leave India. There have been certain things about here that I won't miss – the unnecessary noise made by the students, their refusal to fill up the water tank when it run dry, the dogs barking and waking me up – but when I went outside to read a little before the students came back from McLeod (they went to attend the ceremony for the Tibetan who self-immolated in Delhi and who was taken there for burial), I had a sudden feeling. I realised that the two projects that I had been looking forward to undertaking were almost completely finished. It was a sad feeling as they had occupied my thoughts a lot in the 9 months or so leading up to them. But now they were almost at an end. I know that I have bigger things to move on to, but as this time I won't be joining already existing projects but have to lead them myself, I have no guarantee that they will work. I had the idea that I won't want to stop these projects in foreign countries; I want to do more! I want to keep on travelling and having exciting adventures.

But I have to be realistic; I can't keep doing these forever as they are voluntary and I do need to earn money. My hope is that if I can get projects up and working well then, as my name will hopefully become more known, people will start buying my books and I can earn enough money from those. That would be perfect as I would be able to give all of my time to the projects instead of finding employment which would defeat the object of my intended movement.

The one thing that I need to do is stay dedicated to my plans and expect it to be difficult to start up. It will require people changing the way they do some things, which many people are always very reluctant to do. I hope I can find the people who would already be happy to get involved – those who already think like me and wouldn't need convincing.

I intend to get publicity by asking the local newspapers to print my notification about my meetings and hopefully, they will also be interested to attend them and report on them.

I need to get straight in my mind project ideas that I can deliver to the people who attend my meetings so that they will be convinced straight away. This is very important. If they can't see how something could easily work, they might turn away.

Interestingly enough, I saw on the news today that an independent politician of the Respect Party won a landslide by-election in Bradford, crushing the traditional parties. That kind of thing gives me hope that people want change and they want it now.

I will try to give regular posts during my travels of the next few days.