Category: India 2017-18
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Women of Agora – A Senior Project
Hi all, Hannah, Blair, and I are seniors at Christchurch School. For our integrated senior project, we are working to give back to people who have become like family – the rural Himalayan community of Agora. We want to bring light to the lives of the women in the village. The three of us will…
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Friendship, Sisterhood, and Growing Up
By Hannah Duke In America, things become too easy, too simple for us to even think about what we are doing while we do them. For instance, washing the dishes is a task that does not take much thought for many of us. We rinse the dish off, perhaps, and then toss it in the dishwasher…
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When I Close My Eyes
By Mariana Guzman The first time I closed my eyes was on the plane to New Delhi. All I could hear was the rumble of the engines, the squeaking wheel of the trolley cart and Mr. Cola snoring. It reminded me of the soft hum of my ac in my room just five short hours…
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A Trip – A Community
By Han Zhou During the short two weeks, I have seen true India in my own eyes. It feels like I have just finished my first trip to India. Although there were happiness and sadness in the trip, every time tomorrow came in the trip it always brought more enjoyment. Obviously I have spend a…
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Ms. Smiley’s Pictures
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Pictures from Uttarakhand
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Pictures from the Andamans
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Pictures from Delhi
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Questioning Development
By Claude Owen We had to make choice the other day, between going off on a two-day hike with Pana, or staying in the village and immersing ourselves in the culture of the people. I was quite torn on this decision; on the one hand, there was coincidentally a wedding being held in the village—a…
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A Matter of Perspective
By Elias Gruner Despite all the adventures we went through as a group I wanted to talk about something else. Something only I perceived. My personal experience. I started to undergo my own adventures when we were in a remote village on Havelock, an island in the Andamans. We came there to see how…
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Appreciating Home
By Caleb Lewis India is a place full of adventures. Around every corner there is a new discovery. This being my third time in India, I have truly discovered something that I will keep close in the coming years. This treasure is family. During my first, second and third visit to Agora I have felt…
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Color(ed)
By Kameron Nelson Color(ed). A word that, over time, has become almost synonymous with division. The word that marked restrooms, water fountains, and bus seats for decades, with separation at the heart of its intent. While in India, I have a new meaning for the term color(ed). One that is not formulated around oppression, but…
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Agora – First Discussion
Caleb (LOD) – ‘Best hike I have had to Agora. Best of my life. It is always long but good – today like a breeze. Today I just observed this amazing place. I found a part of me in Agora – most people hover on the surface in their lives but here we are in…
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Familial Love & Education
By Charlene Tran On the 25th February morning in Delhi, I accidentally saw a father and a son sitting on the balcony of a small dilapidated apartment preparing a frugal meal together. Their meager shabby clothes were washed and hung on a thin rope between two old poles. The sad peevish face of the father…
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Indian Education
By Ms. Haley Wilbanks Today, I thought about quite a few things as we were hiking to Agora. There’ve been so many notable moments in the trip so far and as a teacher, it’s been incredible to watch all of them. For me, an early highlight of the trip came in Havelock when we gave…