The Adventure Begins: 5/13

The time is finally here. I am off to India for six weeks tomorrow afternoon!

As many of you know I went to Thailand last summer for five weeks and created a blog to keep everyone back home up to date on my life as well as to share my adventures. When I decided to go to India I got a lot of requests to blog again so I've decided to do that! I may not be able to blog daily due to lack of internet access but I will do my best to blog as frequently as possible. I will even add pictures this time!

I thought this would be a good time to talk a little about what I will be doing while I am there. While I don't know all the details I do know I will most likely be staying with a group of nuns who are working with the Domestic Workers Movement in India. This is super exciting because while I have studied previous movements like the Civil Rights and Women's Rights, being directly involved with one will be quite the experience. It will mostly be women and children I will be working with who are servants in upper class homes. These individuals have been 'invisible' forever, meaning as workers they have had no rights. They have been abused and mistreated and the goal of the movement is to bring these injustices to public view as well as to help these individuals have better lives in whatever ways possible. So yeah, I'm super excited!

I take off tomorrow, May 14th, around 3:10 and should land by 8 pm India time (they are nine and a half hours ahead of us.) We will be staying at a friary for the first few days, doing an in country orientation and then off to our individual placements later in the week.

Good bye for now! I will write again the next time I have internet!