The Indian celebration of Holi was one of the best ways for me to end my experience in Hyderabad. Known as the festival of color, Holi signals the beginning of spring and for many represents an opportunity to let loose and be social with anyone one meets. The most well-known part of the festival, “playing…

29 May, 2019

At the very beginning of my experience in India, I was lucky enough to experience the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi, a ten-day long festival celebrating the birth of the elephant god Ganesh. During this festival, thousands of people throughout our city paint and adorn small clay statues of the god, and proceed to parade them…

22 May, 2019

My Hindi Journey One of my goals when I set out for India was to learn a language. I believed that language and culture are linked at their core, and that it is often difficult to understand one without the other. So, I wanted to make learning Hindi a central part of my experience here….

26 March, 2019

[image: f793543d-319c-4b49-9900-11480ddb6ab2 (1).JPG] Sometimes, life presents us with coincidences and connections that almost seem unbelievable. At the beginning of my time in India, my host mom told me that she was going to take a three-week trip to the United States and Canada, both to see family and for work purposes (she works for an…

20 March, 2019

A Day in Hyderabad Here’s a quick snapshot of an average day of my life in Hyderabad. 7:00 am Every day I wake up at 7 am to do my morning chores. Usually my job is to walk over to the hibiscus tree nearby to our house and pick the flowers that my family uses…

20 March, 2019

It’s been nearly one hundred days since I’ve been living in India, and I find that the more time I spend here the harder it is for me to write about it. I think there are a couple reasons for this, but it primarily stems from the fact that every time I think I’ve gained…

06 December, 2018

As the last one of my graduating friends to leave this summer, I’ve had the pleasure (or burden) of saying good-bye to all of them individually. While painful, going through so many farewells has given me the opportunity to reflect on the changes occuring in my life. Primarily, it has forced me to realize just…

25 August, 2018