Really though, how nervous and anxious can I actually be if I decided last week to extend my trip by 10 days so I can do a tiny bit of traveling after the program ends? Added bonus: it looks like Continental didn't end up charging me the $200-something change fee?! Next week I'll be waking up in New Delhi. I don't want to talk about how little Hindi I know.
I figure I should backtrack a little bit and actually explain what I'll be doing for the semester. No, I will not be working in a call center (as I was (jokingly) asked by a friend of my parents' as I was designated-driving them to their New Year's Eve dinner party). I will be participating in this program on Sustainable Development and Social Change. This includes a homestay, intensive Hindi, educational excursions, and an independent study project for the last month of the program, where I'll hopefully do something related to fair trade. I'll also be in Jaipur during an elephant festival and Holi. Sadly, I'm just missing the Jaipur Book Festival (you can read about it in this week's Newsweek. Actually you probably can't, because everyone and their mother (literally!) has given me a copy of this article to read), which ends today. Candice Bushnell was one of the speakers. I think that would take the prize of one of the most bizarre celebrity encounters ever.
In the meantime, I've been keeping myself (somewhat) occupied by reading a lot of books (I think I'm halfway through my 7th of the break?), doing a lot of yoga, practicing Hindi, visiting my brother at the University of Chicago (where everyone thought I was his little sister), taking advantage of the summer weather do-over, writing cover letters and applying for internships for the summer, and working on my honors thesis proposal. Figuring out the distant future makes the immediate future less intimidating.
you are going to have so much fun! i am incredibly jealous. post pictures if you can!
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