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One person I may never forget
Out of all the people I’ve met in Indai I think she stood out to me the most. While we we’re in Madurai we had an assignment to make a video on the Vaigai River. While my group and I were walking around I met this women. She lives right across the street from the…
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Good but Not Good
This temple was not of my favorites because they would not allow my Muslim friend enter. It was bright full of colors I did enjoy hearing the story’s about the gods in that temple and meditating for a while. Talking to people and having a red dot being placed in the middle of my forehead…
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Leadership Collective 2016- Part 2.
The 2016 Leadership Collective trip to India is over. Just over an hour ago the students landed in Chicago with extra memories and literally extra baggage with purchases in India. Both need to be processed and shared with family and friends and internalized by the students themselves. [slideshow_deploy id=’791′] Since my last blog the…
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Wild jungle, domesticated elephants..
We only got to spend one full day in Thekkady, but it was quite the day. We woke up early to visit the Periyar Tiger Reserve a jungle reserve that holds around 50 wild tigers and about 150 wild elephants, as well as many other flora and fauna. We didn’t run into any tigers, nor…
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MGIS
My first impression on MGIS was how welcoming everyone was. when I first stepped foot in their school I was greeted kindly by a security guard then afterwards was welcomed by students. something that stood out to me was the clothing they wore and the diversity there was at the school . I was pleased…
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Gandhi’s Ashram
I thought I knew a lot about the famous Ghandhi, but I guess I was wrong. When I went to visit his home where it all started kinda I learnt a lot from the place. I read a lot of his quotes and was very intrigued on how he thinks. I found inspiration in his…
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Thekkady
Thekkady is a very beautiful place. This is my first time on a mountain and it’s awesome besides all the bugs but its pretty cool. Also it has amazing weather and stuff. I really like it here.
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Madurai
For the past 8 days, my group and I have been living and experiencing everything there is here in Madurai. From the beautiful luxurious JC hotel to the saddening and eye opening poverty. To seeing the biggest/smallest boniest dogs in my life, to visiting Beautiful and unbelievable temples. Along with having sweat and tears rolling…
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Leadership Collective 2016
Last year I posted a single blog at the end of what I described as one of the most amazing trips of my life. This year I have decided to post bite size pieces of my observations as I travel through India with 15 US teenagers who are part of the Leadership Collective 2016. The selection of this year’s group -12…
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A week in Madurai
The past week has been a whirlwind of adventures and lessons. We’ve been hosted here for our daytime activities by the SITA center, where other international (college) students come to learn, and I’m very interested in studying here in the future. I’ve had some good chances to talk to people around the city, and learn…