My final blogpost about India is going to be about a place called “Anandwan”, literally translated as “Forest of Joy”. I spent one afternoon at Anandwan, but it was an incredible few hours, and a …
Pune
PRIYA TOURIST
I’m currently on a 16 hour bus ride, and I just saw a fellow bus named “Priya Tourist”. In honor of that, this post will be all about my touristy pursuits! I have been doing …
Tension mat le, ho jayega
Things are getting a little crazy. Little did I envision this during finals, which now seem a million years ago. So I use a trusty coping mechanism: sometimes instead of “To Do” lists, I like …
Pune Intended
There are not many things that can alleviate my stress before finals, but this semester I have discovered that an upcoming Study Abroad experience is definitely one of them. Whenever the beast of exam anxiety …
I’m in love, I’m in love and I don’t care who knows it!
While my summer in India had me traveling across the Atlantic Ocean rather than the sea of swirly twirly gumdrops and provided me with a new family rather than a long-lost one, just like Will …
A day as “Leesha didi”
I step out of the program center gate, lunch in hand, ready for a fantastic last day at Bopodi English Medium School (The Akanksha school branch where I intern). I walk down to the corner …
My life is my message.
Throughout my time in India, one thing has become glaringly obvious to me about Americans… or most Americans… or at least the Americans with whom I have been traveling: we really like to talk. From …
I bless the rains down in India
Before coming to India, rain and I were not exactly what you would call “friends.” One might even say that rain and I were “frienemies.” I recognized rain’s value, that some people cared deeply about …
A birthday celebration to remember
It’s 7pm when the doorbell rings and my host mother, Geeta, beckons my roommate and I to gather our things. I throw my water bottle and camera into a drawstring backpack, in an effort to …
There’s just something about a good sunrise…
Perhaps it’s the fresh stillness of a new morning, or the sparkling of the earth as the sunlight gradually cascades across the landscape. Whatever it is, there’s something powerful about a sunrise that makes early …