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Today is my 106th day in India. It’s been 5.5 months since I left the comforts of home in rural Michigan and set out on the adventure of a lifetime. Its purpose and all the details were still a little … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, children, Culture, Culture Shock, Dream, Dream Big, expat, expatriate, Expatriate Life, faith, India, Mission, Movement
Tagged adventure, America, apartment, art, babies, birthday, church, city, clothes, culture, culture shock, detour, drawing, dream, dream big, email, family, food, germs, Hindi, India, Kuwait, lifetime, Michigan, ministry, move, movement, Mumbai, pregnancy, purpose, rickshaw, rural, Sharjah, stolen phone, taxi, teaching, tutoring, UAE, volleyball, women, words
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Culture (and Electric) Shock
We—————–ll, it’s been an interesting week. Let’s start with last Friday, shall we? Got a new phone – a Karbonn. Nice phone, good specs, great camera. So excited to have a phone!! Until I realized that the radiation coming out … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Bandra, children, church, Culture Shock, education, Expat Life, expatriate, Expatriate Life, experience, food, gluten free, God, India, travel, World Travel
Tagged adventure, American vs. Indian, babies, Bandra, bath, brown rice, chicken, children, chips, Christ, church, cleaning, cow, culture shock, Dadar, ear plugs, education, electric shock, electrical problems, expatriate, experience, faith, food, gluten-free, God, house, India, Kolhapur, life, phone, potato chips, prayer, Pune, radiation, rice, rickshaw, Sabbath, scenery, school, shower, sickness, students, taxi, teacher, teaching, train, world travel
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Okay, Daddy God…
Have we got a lot to work through… 1 – A boatload of personal stuff that just doesn’t need to be shared on a blog post. 2 – The discrepancies between the dwellings of the rich and the poor here… … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Bandra, expat, Expat Life, Expatriate Life, India, World Travel
Tagged anniversary, beauty, board work, dosa, friends, India, love, Mumbai, nature, nerd, potatoes, poverty, prayer, starch, teacher, teaching, wealth, white board
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::Contented Sigh::
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So many reasons to be so very happy today! Though Paul says to be content in every circumstance, and to rejoice in the Lord always, sometimes your circumstances make that incredibly easy (as is the case … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Bandra, chocolate, education, Expat Life, expatriate, experience, faith, food, God, India, Prayer, students, teacher, Teaching, travel, World Travel
Tagged aacha din, adventure, apartment, breakfast, chocolate, clothes, contentment, cricket, dark chocolate, eggs, excitement, food, God, grateful, Hindi, home, India, Jesus, Maharashtra, Mumbai, office, organization, paint, rejoicing, rickshaw, shopping, students, teaching, work
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IT’S OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL!!!!
I have been in this crazy, chaotic, captivating country for 3 whole weeks. I’m still finding it difficult to look the opposite direction when crossing the road – the Indians drive on the other side of the road like Europeans. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, India, travel, updates, World Travel
Tagged apartment, directions, expatriate, flat, food, gluten-free, illness, India, loss, lost, move in, Mumbai, teacher, teaching, travel, updates, world travel
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India – Day 20
Kind Reader, It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly three whole weeks since I landed in the beautiful Mumbai airport and took an auto with Rajat to a small hotel in Juhu. On the way, Rajat asked me why I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Decisions, endurance, expatriate, faith, God, India, Journey, Perseverance, Prayer, Reasons, travel, World Travel
Tagged adventure, airport, apartment, children, chocolate, church, culture, days, delirium, East, endurance, faith, fever, flat, God, Hindi, home, hotel, hours, India, Jesus, Juhu, kids, language, learner, letter, minutes, misogyny, months, Mumbai, never quit, not a quitter, not quitting, perseverance, persistence, prayer, raw food, red tape, students, teach, teacher, teaching, travel, weeks, West, women, world travel
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Math, Kebabs, and Sisyphus
Amazing how sixteen questions typed up to keep ambitious high school kids out of college can make you feel incredibly intelligent or unfathomably dull. I always attempt to work out the stuff I’ll be assigning to students before sessions start … Continue reading
Posted in Books, bookworm, Expatriate Life, food, God, Learning, Reading, Teaching
Tagged books, bookworm, college prep, educate, education, Etisalat tower, God, Greek mythology, knowledge, learn, learning, math, meat, middle eastern cuisine, mind, reading, SAT, Sisyphus, teach, teacher, teaching, UAE
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Welp…
That’s a change. Instead of flying for India today, I’m actually stopping in Dubai tonight. The leadership of the company feels it would be best for me to stay in Sharjah, an emirate close to Dubai, where there is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Dubai, emotions, expat, expatriate, faith, hotel, India, Kuwait, packing, Sharjah, teaching
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