Pre-departure Info
Hi Fall ‘06 India Students-
Today Kate and her mom and I had a chance to meet and see pictures of India and talk about the upcoming program. It was great to meet them and I am eager to meet the rest of you in less than a month’s time in New York for orientation.
I hope all of you have had a chance to communicate by email and phone with your “alumni mentors” by now. If you haven’t connected yet, do get in touch with them as they are all students who have experienced the “Brahma to Buddha India Semester” within the past two semesters and have plenty to share with you to help you prepare for your pending adventure. If you have not heard from your mentor in an initial email contact please let me know and I will follow up and help get things rolling.
We would like all of you to register with the US Embassy in New Delhi. To do this you just go to the US Embassy website's Travel Registration page and fill out the registration form on-line. You’ll need your passport number to do this. Once you do this you will receive periodic postings from the US Embassy about things you might want to know about in India.
I have sent out reminder notices about some documents that we need for each of your files, so please be sure to take care of completing those and mailing them to John Eastman at our Woodside NY address as soon as possible. It is especially important that we get the copies of the photo page of your passports as quickly as possible as we need those to book the Delhi-Leh, Ladakh flight which you’ll be doing less than a month from now!
If you have any questions about program preparations or anything else don’t hesitate to email or call me. Galen and Tracy will be calling all of you in late August or early September to check in, but you can call me before that and I’ll be glad to talk with you (or your parents…).
Looking forward to meeting you all in person soon at our pre-departure retreat and orientation in Rosendale NY!
If any of you have any other messages you’d like to post for the whole group on this program site you can send them to blogs@global-lab.org. And when we are in Rosendale you will all get your own user ID and will be able to post directly to your group's blog throughout the semester.
Sincerely,
Michelle Bos-Lun
Director of Programs
michelle@global-lab.org