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Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [366]
The other day I told the kids to get a book from the library to read during Independent Help. One little girl named Maria brought back a book about Disneyland probably from the 60s/70s. I went up to her and said, "I love Disneyland. I've been there.... Read more >
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [473] | Comments [1]
On Monday, I started to teaching my classes. I was basically assigned all of 5th grade classes: Spelling, Grammar, Creative Writing, Science, Reading(Literature), Social Studies, Independent Help, and Completion of Tasks. For a couple of weeks because ... Read more >
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [262]
Today we worshipped the god of instruments. I wasn't quite sure what was going on, but the men prepared an altar. Then they passed around a bowl of fire, a bowl of clay, and a bowl of red powder. The women told us to follow them and we fanned the fire, ... Read more >
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By ankur | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am Ankur Sen from Kolkata,West Bengal,India.Photography is my love,hobby,passion and every thing.Photography gives me a intense pleasure.I mainly love to click landscape.My friends always appreciate my photography and according to them my photography ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By maninr | Views [438]
Woke up to a cloudy morning and took a nice walk along the beach, watching the fishermen still trying their luck for that prize catch in the ocean. The sound of the waves is just scintillating and I decided I will stay here for the day. ... Read more >
Tags: gokarna, om beach, rains, travellers
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By maninr | Views [562]
Not finding much to do in Mangalore, I left to Gokarna by around noon. Stopped at Udupi for lunch, until where road works hampered my progress After Udupi, the ride was uneventful until I reached a place whose name I cant remember. A beautiful ride ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, gokarna, om beach, shacks
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By maninr | Views [581]
Started the day with a hot black chai made on a prehistoric electric heater. Although the sun came out, we were still in our jackets and sweaters. As suggested by Stanley cheta, we decided to trek into the forests to the tea plantations above.... Read more >
Tags: forests, trekking, wayanad
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 | By maninr | Views [1408]
F R E E D O M ! ! ! the word that best describes my current state, although some may call it UNEMPLOYMENT. Thats right I have quit my job and started on my long awaited road trip across India. During the last 6 months Ive literally been a laughing ... Read more >
Tags: freedom, motorcycle, road, royal enfield, wayanad
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [291]
As most people know, I am not very good at
"roughing it." I have never really been camping and my school camp
experience is limited to weekends and trips to Catalina, etc. Thus, this is a
whole new experience for me and I am proud to say ... Read more >
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [530]
Today was the first time that the preschoolers got to see their parents since coming to Shanti Bhavan. I'll explain in detail in a later story but basically what happens is a social worker, a doctor, and a psychologist goes to villages and finds children ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Oct 2011 | By worldnomad7 | Views [334]
Under the fiery red sun, drenched in sweat eight of us come
out of barracks to tour the city of lakes, Bhopal. Stalked and pestered by
autorickshaw-walas, we finally agree to reserve two three-wheeler vehicles,
auto-rickshaw, and get stuffed in ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Oct 2011 | By sarvesh | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
My name is Sarvesh Rajpathak. Am Photographer from India.
Am doing Photography since 4 years.
Recently I went to Leh (Ladakh) region for the famous Ladakh festival. This festival is also known as Festival of colours.
The photos are of the Portraits ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 | By artist-mukherjee | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I should be chosen for the scholarship as I believe that I can bring changes in the mentality of the people with my photography. I want to make social reforms through this art form, as I feel that photography is a strong instrument which can bring changes ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 | By mplescia29 | Views [470]
Ok bear with me...I have never written a blog before. Well I have finally made it to India after 36 hours of traveling! I left on Tuesday at 5:55pm and got to the school at 7:00 pm today. It was one crazy trip though! I had a 10 hour layover in London ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 | By abhinavdubey | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I had been an Engineering student, who drifted towards Photography; on account of my extra ordinary interest in Visual images. This happened while, I had been searching people and places on Internet. As the saying goes, a picture tells the story of thousand ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, alleppey, india, travel photography scholarship 2011
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