Not too long at a networking event, I spoke with a new acquaintance on how technology can improve the relationship between the citizens and their government. Though I’ve been theorizing and writing for years through my studies at Berkeley what it takes […]
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In just two short weeks from today, January 19th, 2015, I’ll be flying to the Netherlands to make it my new home for one year. After 11 months of working for the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco,
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I’ve just spent the last three months working for Bhoruka Charitable Trust (BCT), an NGO that “…is dedicated to social-economic transformation of rural and remote areas of India, especially the weaker and socially underprivileged groups, through physical, social, cultural and
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If India has made me a more patient person, one reason will be due to these long cross country bus rides. I have enough leg room this time. Last week I reported my bus journey to Dharamshala, and now I
My big steel toed boots up against the metal barrier holding my legs in place, as I’m curled up against my seat of the bus. The curse of being taller than the average indian is certainly felt on its transportation
As the token white person in a rural village of Rajasthan, India, I am always treated a bit different. Reasons vary from just the fact that I am white skinned to simply I don’t speak Hindi or the local language.
The Germans are coming, the Germans are coming. This for quite some time had been one of the coming excitements which finally occurred this week at the school. Along with the arrival of 17 students and teachers on an exchange
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A typical day in my week I’m closing up on two months of living in the school and village, but have spent little time discussing what my days are like or what the campus is like. Since I’ve had probably
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They said “Ask, and you shall receive,” I think many would say this seems like an improbable way for life to work, but sometimes I’m lead to believe the universe does work this way. Of course it should go with
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I faithfully did my work on Monday, grading the 38 semester term examinations for my English students. Those 38 reasons enough not to profess teaching as a formal career choice. Never the less the work was done and continued to