2025 Student Blog
January 9, 2025
Cultivating a Community with the Green Foundation
After days in Bangalore, where car horns pierced through my bedroom walls, Kanakapura seemed as quiet as a library. The long bus ride from Bangalore to Kanakapura felt like the crevices between buildings gradually extending into grasslands and lakes, with storefronts scattered along the way. Eventually, the bus stopped in front of a small store…
January 8, 2025
A Tale of Two Encounters: From the Gita to the Goat
As I walked along Kumarakrupa Road for the first time in all of my existence, I experienced many things familiar, and not. I believe this is the crucial balance required of an enriching experience, and as fits my personality, I place the highest importance on the perspectives gained through conversations with strangers. The most striking…
The Questions of Day-to-Day Life
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when coming to India, I am not sure any of us did. But I found some things shockingly familiar personally. The tendency to put Ganesha statues everywhere was something many Thai people did that was comforting to me. The markets, haggling, and all the street carts were mildly…
Comfort and Normality
In reflecting on these past few days, these days abroad in India as GCIL have felt like a dream. After the first few days, I felt that culture shock but stuck with these emotions long enough to see them go and be replaced with new ones. Leading up to my coming to India, I have…
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