I'm home! Stay tuned for reflections on India...

Monday June 25, 2007
I arrived home about 48 hours ago and very happy to be back, I've missed Todd, Mina and the rest of my family terribly. I've rested well although I am still jet-lagged and loopy and don't feel very creative or productive at the moment. I haven't really had an opportunity to analyze or fully digest everything I've seen in India and how I feel about the whole thing, which I imagine will occur naturally as I conduct my analysis for my final reports and paper. All in all the trip to India was a life changing experience, it has raised my consciousness and challenged me physically, mentally, emotionally, and intellectually. I've learned to be more patient, although I still have a lot more work to do in that regard to work in a developing country. I've learned to be more professional, more mature and accepting of situations and what "is."
I'm looking forward to my reflections on the entire experience in the next few weeks and I invite you to keep reading this blog as I intend to continue to update it. While in India when writing this blog most of the time I was really tired and fog headed after a 12-15 hour day, hopefully there will be more of my voice and opinions on here, and less of what we did today and what we plan to do tomorrow and certainly less spelling errors :)

In the meantime, some more pictures from India.

The gang at Taj Mahal in Agra



Monkey's point of view from Agra Fort where Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj was imprisoned by his son and could see the Taj from a small cell. Tragically romantic!




Slums on the side of the highway in Delhi