Closing One Chapter to Start Another
I hope to cross paths with you all in the future and grab a drink or two, but until then I’ll see you guys at the top.
Closing One Chapter to Start Another
I hope to cross paths with you all in the future and grab a drink or two, but until then I’ll see you guys at the top.
Conclusion
And the paradox of it all is that this was my life, this is over a billion peoples’ lives, but mine will end here and theirs will simply continue, going about on its Indian way. I think it’s the most bittersweet experience I will ever have.
Namin’ Babies
We were already almost 2 hours late, but we figured they would be on Indian time. Just as we arrived at the beautiful outdoors ceremony, they announced the Hindi name and lifted their baby girl into the air . . . their very white baby girl.
Conducting Global Economic Conferences, a 19th Birthday and Bollywood Dancing for 3000 People. What else is new?
It’s so India – to have people cheering for what you’re obviously doing at a much more elementary level than EVERYONE ELSE – but because we’re American, we get so much more acclaim. So unfair, but it did give us the confidence to actually do it!
Culture Shock 2.0
They started talking, chatting all night. Within two weeks they had acknowledged to each other they believed they were soul mates. Within 3 months they had secretly married, at the town hall, without telling his Hindu family or her Jewish one.
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow – Wrapping up Bangalore Part 1
I’ve started this post half a dozen times, with little to no idea about what I’m trying to say – it is clear that this semester has changed me, in a million ways through a thousand conversations and countless experiences.
Turkey Day
The turkeys arrived, India style: freshly killed FROM THE CAMPUS AVIARY, but frozen solid from being in the freezer all night, with heads and feet still attached and their feathers only half plucked.
Wedding Crashers
Within 5 minutes of our faces being filmed, they were ON-SCREEN, horrendously photoshopped into strange wreaths of roses, the design on the screen suggesting we were part of badly designed Barbie-themed video game.