Author Archives: Alex Christensen
The Things I’ll Carry
As a final journal entry, we were asked to make a list of ten questions we’d be bringing home with us. This is my list: How do I tell people about India without exoticizing or romanticizing it? Where is my best support … Continue reading
Pride: Careful, It’s Contagious
Sunday November 28th could have been just a free day. But over breakfast at the New Delhi YWCA, Jonathan turned to me and pointed at the newspaper, I leaned over and my face lit up. New Delhi Pride. Today. I … Continue reading
The Good Life, Revisited
There are people you do not forget after spending just an hour with them. Narayan Reddy is one of those people. I stayed with him for 8 days. Over Fall Break, while some hiked to Himalayan mountaintops and saw the … Continue reading
That Thing They Do…
Children have an unprecedented capacity to hope. Never before have I experienced this like I did during our field visit to Koppal. Arriving on the build-site of Visthar 2 (Koppal) we climbed down from atop our bus, grabbed our gear, … Continue reading
A guy walks into a massage parlour…
It was my birthday and I had decided to get a massage. So at 9:30 am, Devaney and I walked in for our appointments. We were ushered into separate rooms and it all began. I walked into a small room … Continue reading
The First Hours of My New Life…
3:34 am, Room 2, Visthar, Bangalore, India. Sunday, August 29th, 2010. There are no words for how I feel right now. The next four months promise to be the most important of my life thus far. Emerging from the tunnel … Continue reading
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