April 28, 2011: Delhi Airport, Delhi, India

Published in the A Year in Resist: March 15, 2011-March 15, 2012, Journal, The Indian Notebook

Waiting in Delhi for our flight to Newark, two of the girls and I sit in the waiting room and discuss the trip, and the people on the trip. They have slang names for almost everyone in the group. At one point I ask them what my slang name is, and they said I didn’t have one but that I was very quiet at first and it was like I was living inside a bubble. “Bubble Boy” one of them suggested. “Yes,” the other giggled, “Bubble Boy. But we never called you that.”