{"id":2394,"date":"2024-07-01T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2024-07-01T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:25:07","slug":"coming-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/2024\/07\/01\/coming-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I&#8217;m posting this in India I wrote it in the States and never got around to posting it. I&#8217;m really excited to be going to India. I will be volunteering as a slum teacher in Faridabad in the metro of New Delhi. For all of my life I&#8217;ve always wanted to visit India. Probably since I was a small child and I saw the film &#8220;The Little Princess&#8221; I think it&#8217;s called. Anyway this is also the week of my last class at U of M, I will be graduating in August so this is my last week in Michigan after three years. I&#8217;m flying straight home to California in August from India. So it&#8217;s a really melancholy week, happy and sad. I&#8217;ve heard a lot about the poverty in India and the pollution so I&#8217;m sure that will be a lot to digest. Well I think that is a good pre-departure post without rambling so for now I&#8217;ll say I can&#8217;t wait to make my next post from India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me on Mackinac Island pre <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR-203x270.jpg 203w, https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/2024\/07\/0510241225a_HDR.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m posting this in India I wrote it in the States and never got around to posting it. I&#8217;m really excited to be going to India. I will be volunteering as a slum teacher in Faridabad in the metro of New Delhi. For all of my life I&#8217;ve always wanted to visit India. Probably since I was a small child and I saw the film &#8220;The Little Princess&#8221; I think it&#8217;s called. Anyway this is also the week of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/2024\/07\/01\/coming-to-india\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-fellows","category-thomas-bates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}