Handing me back the piece of paper with the single word on it, my student says, “Um. I’m not sure I know what this is…” Part of the mission of my work (in experiential education)…
Posts tagged arranged marriage
arranged love marriage
IMG_5263, originally uploaded by seekingsol. One of my students recently quipped, “…arranged marriages give me faith in marriage.” And as quickly as I agreed with her, I wondered, “what a once-foreign idea with which I…
india is an arranged marriage
Village Faces, U.P. India, originally uploaded by seekingsol. (This is an excerpt from a personal journal entry from the first week when I arrived in India. I sometimes cringe and curse at the weird way…
divine chaos
Why India? I find the inquiry funny for the fact that the question is, for others, as obscurely obvious as the answer, for me. But I was asked this question three times this week and,…
this is india – part II
(This story is a continuation of the post from last week, which can be read by scrolling down to the next entry entitled, “this is india – part I”.) ***** The Rail Official instructs me…