Ready for the ride
In the back of my mind I hear the lyrics of “I’m leaving on a jet plane”, by John Denver. Whenever I’m about to embark on a long trip of sorts, I’m excited to pack up my bags and leave everything […]
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Travel Chronicles
Stories from my travels, mostly from 2013 in Europe and India.
Dream schools without standardized tests
I’ve spent the last few days in the place I will call home from August ’16 to May ’17: Bologna, Italy. Here I will attend Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe, and on my trip I stayed with current students and met many
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From the Netherlands; a quick update
The sun is shining and it feels like summer is coming to the Netherlands! Nonetheless, reality is starting to set in as the end of this chapter of my life in the Netherlands is coming closer. I’ve taken two-week period
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Post-Web Summit
The big big Web Summit Speakers throughout the Web Summit claimed as many as 42,000 attendees walking around the terrain of the Royal Dublin Society. As my friends from Go Weekly wrote in their newsletter, the conference offered an enormous amount
From one Career event to the next
Successful career event in Leiden No matter the organization or team one is involved in, I believe the best way to develop oneself is to add value to the team you are involved in; by doing this, you add value
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Summer Time
(TL;DR: I went traveling, worked and had fun, look at pretty pictures) I’ve just given our apartment the thorough cleaning it’s been missing for quite some time. It was necessary after the last month and a half of guests and
Looking back at development
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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Diwali Break
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
Happy Diwali!
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
Feeling different
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.