The Midwest

I can’t even call the post “Ohio” because we actually went to eight different states (including states in the Northeast, Southwest and Southeast ) during our six weeks in the area.  It was pretty amazing.  All of our travels took place during the last two weeks, but we put the first part of our visit  read more

Bye bye Europe

We had a mangled array of activities during the last few weeks of our program.  It was pretty fun, I love organized variety.  We went to Austria for a couple days. When we came back it was just a couple days until we had our graduation! Maybe you know, but our last few days in  read more

Risheehat

Visiting Risheehat, a village about an hour outside of Darjeeling, was one of our last big projects in India.  I could write about all we did there in an entire series of posts, but I’ll keep it to just this one and one in our members’ only section. I was most definitely sick before going,  read more

The Darjeeling Conundrum

Perhaps you’ve heard of Darjeeling. Maybe you know it for its tea. Maybe you know it for the movie. Or if you’re really up on your B+L trivia, you might know it as the final and current destination of our India tour. Well, let me tell you something interesting about this city: it’s FREEZING. Literally,  read more

A Near Engagement

The other day I had a couple hours to kill before we met for dinner, so I took my camera and went for a walk.  I was actually headed to one place in particular, but the ladies I wanted to photograph weren’t there, so instead of immediately turning around I decided to continue on down  read more

Kites & Bananas

I have a few quick stories for you.  It seems almost daily something peculiar catches my attention, few instances are blogged about, but when I find myself experiencing the same odd thing twice, I just have to write about.  This first anecdote is exactly one of those. On one of our first days in this  read more