Wrapping up- last picture post!

Some of my favorite pictures from the last week of school. The first half are from when we posed for the group portrait.

Akta. Oh, Akta. She's like a Bollywood movie star but hilariously silly. I love her to bits.

Dani and Patrick, as sane as ever.

Me with my BFF Chris.

A family portrait. Clearly Ruby is the father and Akta the mother. (Or do I have that backwards?) Also, Kate looks sooo sick in this picture.

Dani amongst the trees.

The rest of these pictures are from the closing dinner.

Kelli in costume.

Liza, Anna, and Steph get down.

Now for some traditional dancing:

Then Ruby and Priyanka showed us how it's done.

And now for the tabla class:

Aaand Guy playing the sitar:

And the Hindi class sings a song...

...And, uh, so did I. But I don't have pictures, unfortunately.

And so we reach the end of my travels in India. It was absolutely amazing. Left so much more of an impression on me than I had really grasped when I was there. I thought I knew no Hindi/Marathi whatsoever- but then I instinctively reply to questions of yes or no with "Ha" and "Nehi," and use "Donyevaa" (no way how to spell/Anglicize that) instead of "thank you." I've even adopted the head bobble.

If you'd like to keep informed of my travels in Italy for the spring semester (see, this is what I love about being an International Studies major), check out my other travel blog here. I promise I will update that one more regularly than I did this one!

Thanks very much for reading. Ciao!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving (which is a long time ago now, holy crap; don't procrastinate, kids) was particularly awesome because my family came out to visit!

I love my sister and she loves me.

Aaaaand my parents!

It's very strange to be celebrating such an unabashedly American holiday as Thanksgiving in India. So the Alliance threw us a Thanksgiving dinner- or, at least, as close to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner as you can find in India.

But there was turkey!

Then I went to Mumbai with my family for the day after Thanksgiving, as it was the last time I'd see them before heading home.

It so happened that that was the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai bombings, so there was a memorial service by the Gateway to India.

And there you have it! Thanksgiving with the fam!