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January 26th- last full day in India
Today was the last full day of our trip in India and Nepal. We woke up early to attend a 6am mass at the Mother Teresa Home. Afterwards, we went back to the hotel to eat breakfast. From there we were assigned groups to do volunteer work at different sites of Mother Teresa’s organization called […]
A Bittersweet Last Night in Ballyvaughan
Sadly, today was our last day in the wonderful small village of Ballyvaughan. We spent the day at the college scrambling to finish our photo and creative writing projects. Each of us met with Priscilla and Baker to gather some constructive criticism in order to perfect our projects by the end of the trip. We […]
January 26th
Signe Laura Peltier Thorpe I’m in Kolkata, we got up early for a 6:00 AM Mass at Mother Theresa’s house, then we volunteered there. First just some laundry, then dressing changes, had tea time, fed them, and put some down for a nap. Then we painted their finger and toenails, because every girl across […]
One of our blogs from India/Nepal
One of our blogs from the trip: Sara and Rachael January 11th, 2014 Today we went to Dharavi, one of the largest slums in Asia. We started out with breakfast at the hotel, then took a bus to the slums. Before leaving the bus, some of us could feel the culture shock purely by just […]
Last weekend in Ireland
This weekend was our last weekend in Ireland, so we had to make it count! On Saturday my cottage mates and I celebrated Lacie’s bachelorette party. We surprised her with chocolate fondue and whine. After watching the movie “Bridesmaids,” we started our Pub Crawl through Ballyvaughn. We first went to Logue’s Lodge, then to Greene’s […]
Continuing the Adventure
Jess R. and Dan V. here with this week´s update. Dan: First and foremost, Spanish keyboards are a puzzle. So, if all my apostrophes are wacky symbols, hang in there. We had some bathroom problems the last week caused by illness. You know you´re really becoming friends with a group of people when the solidity […]
A Small Field Trip, and a Night of Cards
Today (Friday the 24th) was our last day talking about our readings in class. We discussed four short stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners and how the stories depicted the sad reality of the typical person living in Ireland at the time; and for that reason it took him a long time to get this book […]
January 24th
Nepal blog 01/24 Sara Kullberg, Larissa Milne Today was a nice relaxing day in Pokhara, our final full day in Nepal. We began the day with a late breakfast, and then split into rotations to visit the Seeing Hands Clinic. Seeing Hands is an organization that works to provide individuals who are blind with training […]
January 15th
India blog 01/15 Lyndsi Schwichtenberg, Larissa Milne We arrived in Delhi early this morning after our second trip on a night train. We checked into our YMCA hostel for breakfast, but then loaded a bus for a 4 hour trip to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. Definitely a must see when traveling around India! […]
January 19th
Most people are feeling significantly better, but many are still under the weather. Our flight from Katmandu to Pokhara was delayed because of the fog, and we had to wait in the airport for 4 hours. It was a really small plane, and there was only one other passenger besides our group. The view of […]