India
Mar. 26
Time to renew my passport!
After almost four long, painful weeks of waiting after applications were due, I finally got the e-mail this morning that I was accepted to study abroad in India next fall! That means that in five – yes FIVE – months…
Oct. 17
Starting my journey
Unlike many others on this site, I have decided to begin this blog during the very first steps of my journey: deciding where to go and how to get there. I am a critical gender studies major, and I have a big…
Oct. 03
The Charms of Charminar
Today, some friends and I visited Charminar, which is one of the most famous landmarks in Hyderabad. (If you do a Google image search of the city, that is the image that appears first.) Charminar itself is a large structure…
Oct. 03
First Impressions of Hyderabad
It’s beautiful here. Blue sky and lots of greenery everywhere. Rising up out of the foliage are buildings of so many different shapes and sizes and colors it would be impossible to list them all. On the drive from the…
Jun. 19
Village Visit
I’m writing this about a week late, but oh well. Life here has been crazy. Between class, which though I am only taking one assigns about the same amount of work as all five classes I usually take in a…
Jun. 02
Lot’s of Thinking
I am really loving it here, though. What looks so horrid in pictures doesn’t feel as bad in real life. It may be because the people act as though it isnormal. Which, for them, it is. Passing by piles of…
May. 30
BANGALORE IS A JUNGLE
There is no other way to explain it. Those who call New York City the concrete jungle have clearly never experienced anything like this. Everything is chaotic, yet, behind it all there is an order. It is an organized, functional…
May. 26
It’s Almost Time
There only remains about twelve hours before I begin my journey to Bangalore, India. A country that is home to 1.1 billion people, almost one seventh of the world population! Bangalore is a city of innovation, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of…