I applied to this fellowship for a few reasons: my friend Morgan did it last year and told me how amazing it was, I have never really travelled outside the country (I don’t think an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican really counts), with my engineering schedule I can’t travel abroad, and because I had recently become a yoga instructor. Now the yoga is what made the fact that it was India so enticing since it started there. Yoga is…
I applied to this fellowship for a few reasons: my friend Morgan did it last year and told me how amazing it was, I have never really travelled outside the country (I don’t think an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican really counts), with my engineering schedule I can’t travel abroad, and because I had recently become a yoga instructor. Now the yoga is what made the fact that it was India so enticing since it started there. Yoga is…
Going home, going home, I’m just going home Quiet-like, some still light, I’m just going home… These are some of the lyrics from the song “Going Home”, version by Annie Haslam. And how fitting it is for my final week at NIRMAN and Varanasi. I taught this song to 8th and 9th grade students as I was introducing them to solfège (singing the melody in Do-Re-Mi) and Western orchestra (the melody comes from Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New…
Going home, going home, I’m just going home Quiet-like, some still light, I’m just going home… These are some of the lyrics from the song “Going Home”, version by Annie Haslam. And how fitting it is for my final week at NIRMAN and Varanasi. I taught this song to 8th and 9th grade students as I was introducing them to solfège (singing the melody in Do-Re-Mi) and Western orchestra (the melody comes from Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New…
After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research. The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change). So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…
After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research. The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change). So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…
After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I settled into my research. The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change). So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was…
It’s proving to be a summer of firsts. My first time traveling alone, first time in India, first time being in the mountains, first time experiencing Buddhist culture, first time teaching, first time doing research of any kind. Just as I questioned my ability to teach, I wondered why I was ever selected to perform research. I have no qualifications and I’ve never done an interview in my life. Okay I interviewed a 90 year old war veteran for my…
It’s proving to be a summer of firsts. My first time traveling alone, first time in India, first time being in the mountains, first time experiencing Buddhist culture, first time teaching, first time doing research of any kind. Just as I questioned my ability to teach, I wondered why I was ever selected to perform research. I have no qualifications and I’ve never done an interview in my life. Okay I interviewed a 90 year old war veteran for my…
1. Patience is the mother of all virtues. It is a lesson I keep on learning. In Zanskar, things happen on their own time, at their own pace. Need to send an important email? Well first you have to wait a few weeks for tourist season to actually begin. When it finally begins, then you have to wait full weeks at a time before getting to use twenty expensive minutes of slow WiFi. Then you have to wait in Padum all…
