
You would think after 5+ years of taking students abroad sleeping the night before would get easier… no such luck. Packed…check…. paperwork…check… flights on time (at least right now)… check. Excited, anxious, and tired describe all my emotions right now. Yet, when I reach Mumbai and see the smiling face of my friend Kavita and her students waiting for us, all that drifts away and I feel at peace, like I have come home. I guess India has that effect on me, I may not be from there and the general culture is very different from my own, but I never have felt more welcomed. I call it a “cultural pillow” and I can not wait to rest my head on it again.