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Sarah Goes to India

This is Sarah with her Indian family.
These are some of the students in Sarah's study abroad program. There are 14 students all together, 13 girls and one guy.
This is the view from my hotel, Badami. Bottom left corner you can see my beloved autorickshaw. In Madras they still had a lot of cycle rickshaws! To the right, you can see a horse cart - along with bullock carts. These are still commonly found on streets, right next to jeeps, buses and motorbikes, no matter how big the city. Sarah and Emily in front of the Mysore Pallace. The single most disgustingly ornate but still beautiful place I've ever seen. They had rooms entirely furnished in solid silver chairs, and gold painted onto just about every surface, ceiling and floor. WOW!
Not really wild elephants, but gorgeous none the less. This was in Bandipur National Park. Ruins of the Vijayanagar Empire, in Hampi. This huge, sprawling city thrived between 1400 and 1600 AD. It was destroyed by Muslim invaders.
Also in Hampi. This huge building housed the queen's bath which I am being a goof in and pretending to swim. This is the only picture I have left from my working week in the village - all the rest I sent back to my friends on the farm because they had no pictures of themselves. On the left are a few "chandrike" on which silkworm spin their cocoons. The cocoons are later auctioned off based on their quality and then they are spun into cloth.
Sarah! Our little Indian Princess got dressed up like this for a little Halloween party the American kids had. Everyone else thought we were nuts....Halloween, What's THAT!?! From left: Sarah, her Amma (Mom), Deepika, Smitha, and Mallika. Deepika, a family friend, brought us out to this dance village - behind us is a shrine to the woman who founded the place.
Same place (called Nrityagram). Deepika and Sarah.
Sarah and her Amma cooking at home.

This is what the landscape looks like in south India. Those are Jain Temples in the background. Sarah and her Appa (Father) pretending to turn the mill wheel which was actually powered by elephants originally. Grains were poured into the top, and flour came out the bottom.

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This is Sarah with her Indian family.	These are some of the students in Sarah's study abroad program. There are 14 students all together, 13 girls and one guy.
This is the view from my hotel, Badami. Bottom left corner you can see my beloved autorickshaw. In Madras they still had a lot of cycle rickshaws! To the right, you can see a horse cart - along with bullock carts. These are still commonly found on streets, right next to jeeps, buses and motorbikes, no matter how big the city.	Sarah and Emily in front of the Mysore Pallace. The single most disgustingly ornate but still beautiful place I've ever seen. They had rooms entirely furnished in solid silver chairs, and gold painted onto just about every surface, ceiling and floor. WOW!
Not really wild elephants, but gorgeous none the less. This was in Bandipur National Park.	Ruins of the Vijayanagar Empire, in Hampi. This huge, sprawling city thrived between 1400 and 1600 AD. It was destroyed by Muslim invaders.
Also in Hampi. This huge building housed the queen's bath which I am being a goof in and pretending to swim.	This is the only picture I have left from my working week in the village - all the rest I sent back to my friends on the farm because they had no pictures of themselves. On the left are a few "chandrike" on which silkworm spin their cocoons. The cocoons are later auctioned off based on their quality and then they are spun into cloth.
Sarah! Our little Indian Princess got dressed up like this for a little Halloween party the American kids had. Everyone else thought we were nuts....Halloween, What's THAT!?!	From left: Sarah, her Amma (Mom), Deepika, Smitha, and Mallika. Deepika, a family friend, brought us out to this dance village - behind us is a shrine to the woman who founded the place.
Same place (called Nrityagram). Deepika and Sarah.	Sarah and her Amma cooking at home.
This is what the landscape looks like in south India. Those are Jain Temples in the background.	Sarah and her Appa (Father) pretending to turn the mill wheel which was actually powered by elephants originally. Grains were poured into the top, and flour came out the bottom.