India Semester Overview, February 12 - May 12, 2006

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.
-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Exploring a traditional village perched on the Tibetan Plateau. Sipping yak butter tea around a kitchen fire. Smelling jasmine and curries sold in the bazaar. Hearing horns and bells echoing over an ancient monastery’s walls. Watching colorful prayer flags blowing in the wind on top of a mountain pass. Throughout this semester program, participants will have the chance to live and study in the country that gave birth to two of the world's great religions--Hinduism and Buddhism; to travel amid some of the most spectacular landscapes on the planet; and to emerge with a far greater understanding of one of the most influential countries helping to shape the 21st century. Though it is impossible to predict the most memorable experience a student will have in India, those who participate can expect to embark on a journey of discovery that may well last the rest of their lives.
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Hello Everyone!
Dear Everyone,
Jullay from Ladakh!
Jullay Jullay!
My 6 year-old self's proclamation that "I want to be an anthropologist when I grow up" was met with no shortage of raised eyebrows from skeptical adults. Since then, I have continued with a life of passionate fascination with world cultures. I just graduated from a rural Indiana high school and am taking a gap year to travel beyond the cornfields before attending Indiana University next fall to study International Studies or Cultural Anthropology.
My parents named me Drew Knight Weller just before my birth on April 8th 1986. That makes me 19 years old putting me in my second year of college at New York University. This also means I'll be turning 20 during our homestays in Ladakh. Originally I am from Bordentown, the crimp squeezing the middle of New Jersey into the silhouette profile of an upside down rabbit (or that is what my elementary school teachers told us, if you look at a map the peninsula of Cape May is a big bunny ear). So now I am studying interdisciplinary overlapping and cross-curricular collaboration at the Gallatin School of Individualized study in NYU.
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Greetings from Long Island,
Hi everyone,
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