Category: India 2023-24
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Last Call – Global Education Trip for Alumni, Parents, & Friends of CCS
This is the last call to join the upcoming trip to India. It’s an exciting opportunity to experience and explore the subcontinent. You can learn about our Global Education Program first-hand. You will bond with members of the CCS community. There is no other way to enjoy such a unique adventure. Email aalter@christchurchschool.org to learn…
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Some of Mr. Alter’s Photographs
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A Collection of Poems
By Mr. Pausic Emerging – 2022 The place for a single prayer, a resolute prayer full of joy and suffering– eyes that look into thousands of suns, at nothing at all, to try to dream of small things, something so vast and inescapable. Inside this total self life moves profoundly. The bell rings. Sunset over…
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The Banyan Tree
By Praveen Rawat This year I got one more opportunity to help CCS during the Global Education trip to India. We got the chance to stay in a nice and beautiful resort called “BANYAN BY THE GANGES” in Vyas Ghat, upstream from Rishikesh. This place is situated next to the Ganga where it makes an…
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Purpose and Comfort
By Mauricio Vallarta Peña Before starting I would like to thank the school, my family and specially my parents for giving me all the opportunities to go and explore the world.If you’re given such opportunities, take them. Now the trip is over, we are flying back on our way to Washington. Going back home and…
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Kindness
By Israel Spring Celestine Hey I’m about to blow your mind, I’m in India as you could probably tell based on the other blogs, but I’m here to tell you about my short but wonderful experience on my India trip. My first days of India were exciting to learn about new things in India. I…
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A Place to Thrive
By Massam Kawa The longer I stayed in Agora, the more I started to think about why people decided to settle here in the first place. Many aspects of Agora are similar to countries I’ve already visited, but there are many things in this village that I’ve never seen or heard of before. The Garhwali…
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Beauty Everywhere
By Jesse Dethero After being made fun of and seeking validation for my pale complexion for years, I was surprised to receive it in abundance after arriving in India. From our first minutes in the country, I was asked for numerous pictures, and had people point towards my skin and repeat the words “pretty” and…
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Heading home!
Half of our group is in Zurich, getting ready for our last flight, and half is in the air from Frankfurt. We are happy, tired, and feeling grateful. Here are a few photos from the last few days of the trip.
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Pilgrimages
By Ms. Showalter Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled to India in 1959 and famously said, “to other countries I may come as a tourist, but to India I come as a pilgrim.” He sought to honor the late Mahatma Gandhi, whose ideas about nonviolent social transformation impacted MLK deeply. So were we tourists or pilgrims…
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What’s a Wicket?
By Brayden Payne When I first came to India I did not know a lot about cricket. But once we got to Mussoorie I saw the game for the first time. It reminded me a little bit of baseball, my favorite sport, and I thought I might be good at bowling. As we drove across…
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Making a Village
By Alex Fitzhugh I would like to start off by saying hello to my Mom and Dad since I haven’t been able to talk to them in a while. I’d like to write about Agora. The road to Agora is a winding, one car gravel road with narrow passes overlooking steep cliffs. When the bus…
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Age versus Graceful Endurance
By Ms. Wilkinson I have wanted to visit India ever since reading the book, Shantaram, years ago, which piqued my curiosity. I was afforded that opportunity this year when the India Global Ed trip needed another chaperone. Although I exercise most days and am in fairly good shape for my age, I was a bit…
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Conversations and Context
By Joseph Burke Agora doesn’t have hundred foot tall mausoleums, massive statues of Hanuman the monkey god, or the headquarters of the Indian government like Delhi does, but in my time here I have learned more about Indian history, religion, and society just through conversations I’ve had with the people here. If I asked the…
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Agora Reflection
We reflected on our time in Agora a lot – during several conversations. These are some highlights: Alex – “The work in the US and Agora are way different but there are ways to help each other. In Agora, people help with everything from cooking to building a house. What are the spaces in the…