Category: India 2019-20
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Some Pictures from Delhi
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Health – a Window into Agora
By Ashton Willcox Wow, I am back here again. A place that seems so familiar, however I still have a ton to learn. After visiting Agora last year as a Sophomore, I was excited to try to try to find a way to give back. Based on my experiences, healthcare seemed like an obvious way.…
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A Good View and a Pile of Rocks
By Caroline Painter As I write this, I think it is important for you to understand where I am. As I place each stroke of pen ink onto the surface of the page I’m sitting on white rocks that were hand stacked to form a wall to support a mountain path. I’m on the edge…
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Poem: The Ganges
By: Ashton Willcox The holiest river in all of the land, They say you can put it in a can and it won’t smell bland. Hindu’s holiest river flowing through a Hindu majority country, It’s amazing al the stories it could tell me. Religion, history, military, you name it, The Ganges impacts all three, so…
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Worth wanting more
By: Jeff Elkin Today, we get to wake up at 4AM to get on the train and look at roughly 1 hour of city, 4 1/2 hours of farm/factory towns, and 30 minutes of uninterrupted forest. After that, we got to drive up the winding steep roads up to Mussoorie. I wasn’t expecting to have…
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The Banks of the Ganges
By: Carlyle Cunningham Yesterday, we travelled by bus through the Himalayas, making it to Uttarkashi and closer and closer to Agora. I don’t know how else to say it, but the beauty of this place brings tears to my eyes. On the six hour bus ride from Mussoorie to Uttarkashi, I had plenty of time…
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The Opposite End of the Earth
By Willem Fox This all genuinely feels like a dream. Two years ago, almost to the day (March 4th) I was sent to the Utah desert due to change the course of my life. If you would’ve told me at that point that in two years I would be spending my spring break in India…
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The Power of Coexistence and Place
By: Mary Esten Brown I missed this incredibly diverse place beyond words. The second I stepped off the plane and back into the city, my heart was filled. In comparison to last year, this trip is very different. I value the diversity of activities between trips – each year we have a different outcome and…
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Contradictions and Guitars
By: Arthur Nichols Yesterday, we woke up and ate paratha for breakfast and then we went to an ashram. There, we listened to the main religious leader singing, and everyone started dancing. The whole experience felt awkward, but it was cool at the end when the leader gave a speech. While his accent was hard…
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First Impressions
First Impressions of Delhi Arthur, as leader of the day, asked the group to think about the contrasting images of the day and for those in the group who have read White Tiger, he asked them to consider “the light” and “the dark” as it is explored in the novel which takes place in Delhi.…
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Day 1
We spent our first full day in India putting Delhi in context, beginning with its ancient origins and ending in one of the city’s newest malls. Students were asked to consider the symbols we saw – the tomb of Humayun, a Mughal ruler from the 1500s whose tomb was the first to incorporate Persian designs;…
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New Delhi in One to Five Words
We boldly stepped out into the streets for our first full group experience of our Delhi neighborhood, Karol Bagh. As Mr. Alter described it, from his vantage point leading the group to dinner we looked like a crazy snake of Christchurch wandering single file down the rainy streets to Karim’s for a famous and delicious…
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The group assembled
We are all together now and things are great! We just had our first official Indian feast and morale is high. look for more info soon!
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The first wave is here!
Charlie, Arthur, Jefferson, Ms. Wilbanks, and Coach O’Connell are here and happy. Getting to India is no small feat but even the first drive to the hotel makes it worth it – there is so much to observe! The students had a lot to say on the ride. Charlie observed the way that the cars…
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Our Plan – an Overview
This year’s trip to India will be Christchurch’s most impactful trip to the subcontinent to date. Each year, our relationships with and understanding of the places we visit in India deepen. This year, we’ll be investigating Uttarakhand through three focal lenses – the economy, the environment, and the relationship(s) between the government and its people.…