April 7, 2012
Burning toilet paper. How do you get rid of your used toilet paper…?
Burning two weeks of used toilet paper in Setrawa, India....
#64: Volunteer abroad. (Volunteering at Sambhali Trust in Setrawa, India.)
My name is Valerie. I am 31 years old. My favorite color is green. My favorite fruit is bananas. My favorite vegetable is eggplant. My favorite animal is a dog. Today my feeling is worried. Every day we sat in a circle with our Sambhali Trust butterfly class and one by...
April 1, 2012
Small town life in Setrawa, India. (Shaitrawa, सेतरावा)
Jaime and I spent two weeks in Setrawa while we volunteered at the empowerment center. It sometimes felt like we were on some kind of Wizard of Oz meets Truman Show movie set. Everything perfectly placed to remind you that you're in rural India. The...
March 30, 2012
The goats of Setrawa.
Why did the goat cross the road? Go ask it. *** Jaime told me I had to do a photo post on the goats of Setrawa. Because I took entirely too many photos of them. Because they were everywhere. In the sand. On the porch. In the road....
March 28, 2012
In the kitchen with Pushpa.
Chapati has may uses. It is food, of course, an Indian bread. But it also serves as a utensil, a fork or spoon, to scoop up whatever the vegetable of the day may be. Or as a spatula, placing one on top of another on...
March 20, 2012
The next two weeks…
This wasn't my plan. I'm going to tell you this upfront. It's not that I don't want to volunteer. It's not that I don't think that this is a worthy cause or an amazing organization. Because I do. And it is. It's that I don't think I...