Another adventure begins

Since my trip to Namibia I've gone back to Nicaragua twice and the Dominican Republic once for service-type experiences. I'm studying Public and Community Service at Providence College, with a minor in Women's Studies and a concentration in public health. I've got this semester in India and all of next year before I graduate in May 2012.

I'm going to New Delhi, India to study Health and Human Rights with SIT. The program ends on May 16th and I am really hoping to travel afterward (Nepal& the Himalayas, Goa, Thailand...)

Right now I've got two hours to finish this post, shower, and pull off some last minute tasks before I get in the car headed toward Newark airport. My flight leaves at 8:40pm tonight. It's a 14 hour direct flight, and I land at 9:40-ish in the evening tomorrow, February 1st. I don't know what to expect when I get there, other than that I'll be meeting up with my group and we'll probably head off to a hotel or something. There are maybe 7 or 8 other young women from my program on my flight - 18 in the program all together (no guys!).

I've studying Hindi for the past couple of weeks. I met up with one of my dad's friends and coworkers who is from northern India and she was a great help in learning the 52 symbols in the syllabary, the conjuncts, and translating the words I needed to prepare. She also let me know that everyone will know my name well...right now the biggest female Bollywood star is named Katrina Kaif...pretty cool!

I have yet to write the paper that I've got to hand in on the first day of class...I guess I'll be busy in the airport and on the flight... and I'm exhausted already. Ha. Ohh man.

I'll wake up on February 2nd for my first full day in India. And my 20th birthday. I spent my 17th birthday in Namibia. I guess I'm lucky to be able to celebrate abroad again :)

I don't know when I'll be able to get access to internet next, but I'm going to try what I did when was in Namibia, and blog every day or every couple of days. Stay tuned!

(I vacuum-packed my clothes! SO handy...made packing everything else up in my bag a lot easier)