Greetings from Caitlin
Hello… my name is Caitlin Thurrell. This year I graduated from St. Paul’s School, and now I’m planning to spend a year in the world before college. I’ve never lived outside of New Hampshire or traveled anywhere in the East—until now, my life has been very small and very safe. I love my home, but it provides little perspective—this, I think, is mainly what I look for in India. By the time I join up with you I’ll have been there for four months already, living with my uncle in Auroville, an international community near Tamil Nadu. Some other things… I’m interested in writing and sculpture, in books, in hiking and snowshoeing, in poetry (not mine) and music (also not mine—mainly folk and jazz, but really anything), in history and religion, and in philosophy. I’ve been practicing Ashtanga yoga for the last four years, and during the summer I work making sandwiches and scooping ice cream at a deli by the lake. I’m a little afraid to meet you all, but more excited than that.
Until then—
Caitlin