Sublimity…

While sitting down with the calendar this weekend planing out my upcoming trip, I realized that this evening marks the end of my first month in India. It was a bit of a strange realization, time here hasn’t been something that I’ve kept track of – even though I’m going to school and thus have [...]

Well folks, I’ve finally done it. After living in India for a whole year (11 months last trip and one this trip), I had the quintessential Indian experience of seeing a Bollywood film in all its glory on a big screen in an Indian theatre. Rupi had been raving about this new movie called “Garam [...]

That’s right Hindi speakers, I just finished planning my first big adventure in India (for everyone else it’s your new word/phrase of a ‘semi-regular basis’: ‘Meh gumnae walae huu’ translates to “I’m going to go roaming/wandering” – used in the sense of traveling around). As I’ve said before, my Hindi lessons end on December 2nd, [...]

Though I love this “cottage” I’m staying in and I constantly ask myself how I got so lucky to have a place like this that I can go, there is one thing about it that isn’t ideal. Up to know I’ve been able to avoid it so it hasn’t caused any trouble, but this afternoon [...]

My (mis)adventure out to Dhanulti to go see a rock music festival that everyone said would be an experience not to be missed, and ended up being an adventure I won’t be able to forget…