Bo-Peter Laanen

I’ve been staring at this blank document for quite some time. I am trying to collect my thoughts but there are really so many things going through my mind. One of the things about living in an environment where the […]

Besides overcoming my first small bout of sickness in India, this week has been pleasant and full of self-reflection. Reflection about personal character, my aim in life, and alternative career paths to follow upon my return to California. I am

Work week two complete. It’s strange to settle in and find routine with functionality in a place that I know has an end in sight. Really, making myself at home in Bhorugram, while I still look at a place I

I’ve been adopted into a big India family. Given the level of comfortableness and ease with which I’ve slipped into the routine of this campus, I believe that’s an accurate way of depicting my next four months. Everyday I work

I don’t know if you knew this, but all these weeks that I’ve been writing and traveling was all about coming up to this moment. Eight weeks on the road was my initiative to take advantageous off of an already

From the mountains of the Dharamsala I descended overnight into the early showings of Delhi’s mayhem. This time I would be in the comforts of the home of Arjun, a good friend. A day spent relaxing melted into a small

Any one looking out of the small airplane windows could see apartment-complex building and streets going for miles in either direction. Big patches of undisturbed woods and sail strung waters were between these complexes until it gave way to nothing

Anticipation. I don’t think it is that I am worried or scarred, it is that I know come next Saturday I won’t know what it is Delhi, India will serve me up. A new country that I am by no