Week has been full of campus explorations and class auditing. Oh right. I'm here for school...?
Things I've Learned This Week:
1) This campus is seriously the most beautiful campus I've ever seen. We literally study in a forest.
2) Wealthy Indians REALLY know how to party in style. Very very expensive style.
3) I love henna.
4) Indian fireworks are about 75 times cooler than ours. Giant metal sparklers longer than my arm.
5) I am blessed by the universe to have been uprooted and flung across the globe with such wonderful people.
6) The more I exist here, the more I explore, the more beautiful people and places and things I see, the more I am falling in love with this disjointed, randomized, dichotomy of a country.
In other news, we spent all of yesterday on a giant city-wide scavenger hunt amazing race type thing. It was pouring down rain, exhausting, and slightly nerve-wrecking, but it managed to be a good time.
we explored a very local bazar.
we ate ice cream.
and sweets from Hyderabad's best bakery.
and lunch at a ridiculously delicious restaurant.
And I couldn't take pictures, but I had the most amazing experience at a Hindu temple. It overlooked the entire city, made entirely of marble, and possessed the most incredible air of love and devotion.
My heart was absolutely pulsing with the power of the place.
As Hannah said, "I seriously almost cried."
It was incredible. To feel the power of so many human hearts. So many people with ultimate surrender to their beliefs.
Ahhh, seee? The world makes sense again! I think it's good that I'm studying religion. Go figure.
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Things I've Learned This Week:
1) This campus is seriously the most beautiful campus I've ever seen. We literally study in a forest.
2) Wealthy Indians REALLY know how to party in style. Very very expensive style.
3) I love henna.
4) Indian fireworks are about 75 times cooler than ours. Giant metal sparklers longer than my arm.
5) I am blessed by the universe to have been uprooted and flung across the globe with such wonderful people.
6) The more I exist here, the more I explore, the more beautiful people and places and things I see, the more I am falling in love with this disjointed, randomized, dichotomy of a country.
In other news, we spent all of yesterday on a giant city-wide scavenger hunt amazing race type thing. It was pouring down rain, exhausting, and slightly nerve-wrecking, but it managed to be a good time.
we explored a very local bazar.
we ate ice cream.
and sweets from Hyderabad's best bakery.
and lunch at a ridiculously delicious restaurant.
And I couldn't take pictures, but I had the most amazing experience at a Hindu temple. It overlooked the entire city, made entirely of marble, and possessed the most incredible air of love and devotion.
My heart was absolutely pulsing with the power of the place.
As Hannah said, "I seriously almost cried."
It was incredible. To feel the power of so many human hearts. So many people with ultimate surrender to their beliefs.
Ahhh, seee? The world makes sense again! I think it's good that I'm studying religion. Go figure.
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