A beautiful ordinary day

Greetings earthlings,

I'm still here in Kolkata.
The day started with an early bus ride to attend a meeting with a bunch of Indian shipping businessmen. It was an interesting experience because with the way I look most places in the western world would not have let me in the door. But just having white skin, no matter if it's almost brown with dirt, grants you some high respect. The main boss asked me what I was doing there and began the meeting by asking if anyone could help me in my desire to travel by container ship to Canada. The response: " Absolutely not", "it's not possible", " no containership in the whole world will allow civilians on board". This is the message I've been receiving all week. After that I hung around outside the docks writing down more company names of the passing containers to investigate.

Then off to a clothing store that supports marginalized women become more independent by training them to make all sort of items AND the store had many things that I was interested in so it really felt great to support them, especially because I've really wanted to help lately due to the significant increase in homeless and begging people in Kolkata compared to the rest of India. Note: if coming to India I wouldn't suggest Kolkata as the point of entry unless you really want to be shocked and then pleasantly relieved in all further destinations in India.

Then off to a container company office that is going exactly where I want to go and has environmental conservation as a significant part of their procedures (or at least they claim). But again "Not possible", however, this time the manager was really nice. We had chai (milk tea) and chatted in his office He was very interested in my travels and although he did not have the news I wanted to hear I didn't feel like he was lying to me or trying to make me feel crazy. After that I started to think well maybe it's true. Maybe I really can't travel by containership from India or Bangladesh to Canada. If that's the case then I guess that's what's meant to be. But why have so many internet sites said it is possible? The thought of not being able to take a ship actually took a lot of pressure off me. I didn't want to fly home without giving the ship a worthy try. I didn't want to come home in an anti-climatic way of: it started to get really hard so I took the easy way out. I feel like I've been giving it a good try and I'm not done yet. At least I will go to Bangladesh and try at the major port that the other beautiful soul recommended me. If it is still not possible from there than I can be content with taking a plane.

Nearing the end of my day in the internet cafe I looked up some of those sites speaking so greatly of containership travel and the author recommended a few specific compainies that allow passangers on board. One of which I saw today at the docks! With a little investigation I found on their website that they go from Bangladesh to Vancouver AND that they organize "vacationers" to travel on their vessels with a specific contact person to reach!!
Wow this sounds really possible again. Seems to me like I just needed to accept that the Divine will deliver what's best for me even if I think it's not what I want or need.
I'm prepared for this new possibility to land short which is again okej because I know it's going to work out for the best whatever way it does.

So that was my day. How was yours? Feel free to write me about what is going on in your life.
Peace and presence,
Kelly