Arrived in Jaipur
Namaste, friends and family ...
Only a few days after leaving the mountain hermitage of Ladakh, we arrived this afternoon to a very warm welcome in the Pink City of Jaipur. The capital of Rajasthan, Jaipur will be our home for the next three weeks.
Our students have already moved in with their new home-stay families, and will begin their Hindi language classes first thing Monday morning. We will have classes six days a week: the morning is comprised of Hindi class, and a daily lecture followed by a field trip. In the afternoon, we will have lunch together as a group, and then split up for our Independent Study Projects (ISPs). Every Sunday is home-stay day, time for the students to rest and spend time with their new families.
Our students are doing the following ISPs:
Andrew: Jewelry-making
Hannah: Advanced Hindi
Emilie: Bollywood dance
Raul: Volunteering in a local hospital
Annie: Yoga
Nate: Sitar
Nora: Jewelry-making
More photos and videos to come!
Jackie Dennis
Program Director