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Single or couple wanted for Front Desk and general resident duties at independent motel 45 minutes from Raleigh. Must speak English. Accommodations provided. Contact Bob Shah at 847-354-8120. Live-in or Live-out Nanny Needed for 18 month-old girl in Cary, NC. Full-time, M-F, 8am to 5pm. Please contact patelhetalj@gmail.com or call at 919 244 1662. Energetic multi-tasker Cashier/Asst Manager Wanted for 7-11 Convenience Store near Northlake Mall in Charlotte. Previous experience in retail a must. Fluent English & legal status required. Attractive pay ($25k$40k per year). Call 856-266-5059.

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Looking for experienced Couples/Singles for Front Desk / AGM and Housekeeping positions at franchise Hotel in North Carolina. Should have knowledge of choice advantage and must be Fluent in English. Accommodations provided. Call Nick 336327-0651 between 10am & 6pm. Front Desk / Night Auditor Needed for a Franchise hotel in Burlington, NC. English a must. Accommodations provided. Please call Aswin 336-693-9057 or Renu 732-318-4878. Elder Care Needed: 92 year-old father needs companion for viewing sports, walks, socializing, some personal care in Chicago area. Will help with relocation. Accommodations provided. Prefer male elder care provider. Please call 551-689-2491. Nanny Required for 11 month-old at home in Concord, NC starting ASAP. Full-time 9am-4pm. Call 352-672-3312. Front Desk / Manager (single or couple) needed for franchise hotel in Fort Mill, SC (near Carowinds). Legal status, fluent English, and basic computer skills a must. Accommodations provided. Email to bwhospitality78@gmail.com Gas Station in Rock Hill, SC seeking Help. Single or couple. Really good pay for experienced people. Call 803-792-4452. Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk/Manager, Night Auditor and Housekeeper (Single/Couple) for franchise hotels in Charlotte, Gastonia, High Point. Accommodations provided. Call 704-4600379 between 6-9pm. Cashier Wanted for Convenience Store near Kannapolis. Attractive salary! Accommodations provided. Text or Call 704-701-9482.

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continued from page 22 inching towards normalcy, while India was falling deep into chaos.

A highly contagious variant was quickly spreading across the country, more cities and states were declaring lockdowns and there was a massive vaccine shortage. Early in my trip I had registered with the US State Department to receive important communication for American citizens in India. Emails were sent only when necessary but within a matter of weeks the frequency greatly increased. Mid-March I had received an email about complying with recently announced restrictions by the government of Maharashtra to prevent the spread of Covid and in the first week of April the State Department sent a message stating that due to the concerning rise of cases, only essential services would be provided by the American consulate in Mumbai.

Two weeks later, their emails were encouraging Americans to leave India at the earliest as the country was deemed unsafe because of the massive rise in Covid cases and a healthcare system that was unable to cope with demand. The message requesting Americans to depart from India was delivered every two to four days. My social media timelines were filled with frantic messages requesting oxygen cylinders, medications and hospital beds, including SOS messages from Indians residing outside of the country who were trying to procure medical resources for elderly parents in India. And the number of people losing their lives was astonishing.

Indians were succumbing to complications attributed to the disease and also from having no access to proper healthcare, and if some access was secured it was often too little or too late. The privileged were mostly spared in 2020 as the torturous journey of migrant workers traveling from cities to their small towns and villages became the image associated with Covid in India. However, in 2021 in a matter of a few weeks, Covid affected a spectrum of citizens from citydwellers to families in small towns, to rural farmers. My family members and friends in India were becoming ill with Covid and many well-wishers were reaching out to me asking about my wellbeing and when I planned to return to the States.

There was a concern and urgency in their voice which wasn’t present before as now India’s crisis was featuring prominently in American news. Multiple countries were announcing travel restrictions and bans for passengers traveling from India and airline carriers were suspending flights as well. I quickly booked a ticket hoping I would return to the US without incident. As the Ola cab took me to the airport on a Saturday night, neighborhoods and intersection that were lively and busy with activity a month ago were now completely empty at 11pm. But the flights I boarded on route to America were packed with passengers leaving for safer shores.

When I arrived at my final destination, a suburb of Raleigh, the extreme quiet in a neighborhood made me think I had traveled from one night curfew to another. Before I fell asleep, I heard the neighbor’s outdoor air conditioning unit shut and thought the power went out, but the nearby streetlight remained on reminding me load shedding wasn’t a common phenomenon in America. Hours later, I was suddenly awakened by the early morning loud chirp of a bird which was neither a crow nor a koel and was quickly realized that I was no longer in Mumbai.

My first few weeks in America were spent in a daze. Many hours passed while looking out my window or sitting on the front porch. Watching squirrels run up and down trees, rabbits hop between lawns and birds soar between branches was helping me decompress. I breathed in the clean air, fragrant with flowers around the house and planted around the neighborhood. As I sat on the porch, I booked appointments online to become vaccinated, something I couldn’t imagine doing in India. Although the decision to hastily exit India was entirely mine, I continue to feel sadness at what I experienced during the month of April.

I also did not have the opportunity to properly say “Thank you” and “Goodbye” to India, and especially Mumbai, a city that sheltered, protected and nurtured me for almost two years. With a lockdown in place, activities associated with a typical farewell, such as dining with family and friends in a favorite restaurant or revisiting sights where fond memories were made, were not possible. I left a country that was experiencing a crisis, steeped in sorrow, anxiety, and uncertainty. I know I am one of the very lucky ones who had family and friends recover from Covid, who was able to return to a safer country and quickly become vaccinated.

There are so many Indians mourning the loss of a loved one, who are anxiously awaiting vaccination, and who are wondering when the next lockdown will be announced. I am certain I will one day return to India, but along with many others, do not know when that will be as variants and a mostly unvaccinated Indian population are factors to consider, even for the fully vaccinated traveler. Perhaps “Goodbye” is not the correct word to convey my sentiments, as it has a strong sense of finality and doesn’t carry hope the way a phrase like “Until we meet again” does.

So, my dearest India, until we meet again.

Despite no restrictions on capacity, the upmarket R City Mall was mostly devoid of customers in late March. Ghatkopar, Mumbai

An email sent towards the end of April from the US State Department encouraged Americans in India to leave the country.

Shivani Tripathi cannot remember a time she wasn’t madly in love with Indian cinema and writing. She spends time in New York, North Carolina and Twitterpur @Shivani510

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