India Blog

We’ve spent our last days in India embarking on more tourist activities.

Students visited the educational sites through Aasraa Trust. Upon visiting the slums on the Bindal Bridge, they experienced the inequality that sparked Gandhi’s teachings and fight for peace.

Groton learns more about the criminal justice system, then takes in the wildlife of India.
 

Following our now-routine breakfast with the Welham girls, we set off to visit Navdanya, a local biodiversity farm, before traveling to The Doon School for the first time to explore their campus and meet the Headmaster for dinner.
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Groton students spent the day with the NGO Aasraa Trust.
 

It was a fun two days experiencing Indian schools' culture.
 

Over the past two days, the GEO adventurers have been on a journey through Uttarakhand, north of Dehradun. 

Celebrating Holi with the girls at Welham was everything we wished for and more: there was music, dancing, laughter, joy, a conga line, and most of all, color!! (which we thankfully managed to wash out of our hair at the day’s end).

We spent most of the day traveling by bus from Delhi to Dehradun (meaning “home in the valley”). We drove past sprawling sugarcane fields, tall clay furnace chimneys, and plenty of cows roaming the roads.

After a night's rest recuperating from a long day of travel across multiple time zones, we met our tour guide, Shantum-ji, who encouraged us to adopt the concept of a "walking meditation" during our time in India, where we think less about the destination and more about taking in everything along our journey. After orienting ourselves, we set off to explore the complex streets of Old Delhi.

The team arrived in Delhi in the early hours of Monday morning - March 6th.