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2017 Playlist

2018-01-02

नमस्ते Translation: Namaste Translation: Hello First of all, ngā mihi of te tau hou, or in more familiar words to many readers; happy New Years! I hope 2017 was nothing but kind to you all, and that 2018 proves to be a great year. It’s been a while since I last wrote anything, mainly because...

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Missing Home

2017-12-25

I miss America. I miss the nature so nearby with a forest an hour one way and a beach an hour the other. I miss the freedom of its roads connecting each of its cities like a lifeline. That feeling of driving down the highway with nothing but myself and some money for gas. I...

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A tiny summary of an epic experience!

2017-12-03

  After 22 hours of plane flights, layovers and bumpy bus rides, the Indian cohort had finally made it to Hyderabad. We arrived at the sight and sound of the bustling city of Pune. We spent the first week of our journey at the Center for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA) in Pune doing our...

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My first bad day

2017-11-28

I told my mother a few days before my departure to India how my timeline for the next 8 months would look. I go with the flow, but when it comes to my emotions, I have always been a diligent planner. Given that my mood swings rarely sway beyond mild; it is relatively simple to...

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Happinin’ in Hyderabad, India

2017-11-18

It’s officially been more than 2 months and I think it’s safe for me to stay that I have adjusted pretty well in my community: I teach a 7th grade class that I love, I successfully vacationed with my host family, and have been around almost the entire – 10 million population – city that...

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The Spice Crisis

2017-11-16

I’m having an identity crisis. It’s an ongoing one, actually. Let me elaborate: As a Korean child living in the US, I felt that my Korean background would be something that would stay with me, but also something that would slowly fade as I grew older. As a result, I’d try to overcompensate for my...

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Putting Away the Notebook

2017-11-14

The other day I decided that over the course of the next five days, I would talk to five random people simply to get to know them. This decision was the result of a gradual process of realizations that I’ve been having since arriving in India.   One of my initial, semi-vague intentions for my...

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Sunlit Classrooms

2017-11-13

Although my students are around five years younger than I, 7th & 8th standard, they continually and often unknowingly teach me about the environment which I now call home. Working with 160 rambunctious kids may be far from easy, but they offer insights into their world that I could only imagine before immersing myself here....

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Daily Routine

2017-11-09

Hi again,  As you might be curious to know what my everyday routine looks like here in Pune, I thought I’d share that with you.  (Unfortunately I don’t have either a scanner or computer at the moment, so you’ll have to enjoy my glorious artwork through iPad-taken photographs.)   

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No fear 2.0

2017-11-08

I never stood out much in the States, at least not physically. I’m five two, with brown hair, and green eyes. Here, aside from my height, I couldn’t be more different from the people around me. At least on the outside. The stares and whispered words elicited purely by my pale skin scared me at...

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Harkadas: My Apprenticeship Experience

2017-11-05

I arrive in a neighborhood foreign to my knowledge, surrounded by strangers staring at me as if I am an exotic creature that just escaped the circus. I’m lost and it’s the first day of my apprenticeship. Oh no, this is already a bad impression. I’m struggling to hold myself together. I’m scared.. Mujhe dar...

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City Names

2017-11-03

I was rereading some stuff in my journal, and stumbled upon some stuff I wrote my first night here in India, that never made it on my blog but is kind of interesting. It isn’t as relevant now, but I wanted to go back and talk about it. The city I live in has two...

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