So I want to apologize for completely failing at keeping up my blog this past month. There are so many things I didn't have a chance to post about--my internship, traveling to Hampi, the end of the program, trekking in the foothills of the Himalayas, visiting the Taj Mahal, seeing my Indian friends for the last time (for now). On top of everything getting crazily busy, my camera broke completely once and for all so I didn't have that many photos to update with. So for this last post I think I'm going to just upload a bunch of photos of things that have happened since Holi (in no particular order) and hope that suffices. Sorry for being such a bad blogger!
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| Travel week in Kerala: a canal in Fort Cochin |
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| Travel week: on a ferry to the beach |
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| Travel week: the view from the spice plantation we stayed at in Munnar |
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| Travel week: the backwater-side hotel we stayed at in Alleppey |
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| Travel week: Zach tonsilitis-ing out on the houseboat that took us through the backwaters |
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| Sachin Shinde, one of the fifty farmers I interviewed for my internship with Nav Nirman Nyas, a rural development organization. If you want to know more about my internship, e-mail me and I can send you the paper I wrote on it. Or just tell you about it when I see you soon. |
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| The coconut man scaling the trunk of the palm tree to remove the coconuts outside our flat. My baba was out picking up some patis for breakfast when he arrived and I had quite an adventure trying to figure out what he was telling me in Marathi. For a while I thought something had happened to my baba, like he had hurt himself on his bike or something, but it turned out the man was just there to remove the coconuts and wanted to talk to Baba because he's the secretary of the housing society. |
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| Hampi (stolen from Melissa) |
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| The river we crossed in Hampi to get to the side with waterfalls and the lake. We rented motorbikes for the day and drove around to the waterfalls, went swimming in the lake, and hiked to the Hanuman temple. It was a great day, except for the whole losing my wallet thing. Stolen from Melissa. |
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| VICTORY. At the top of Dondital. Stolen from Melissa. |
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| Yeah, that's the Himalayas behind us. NBD. |
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| Saying goodbye (and not crying). |
