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India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Pune, India

Living arrangements

During the first few weeks of the program, students live together in a hotel. After that, they are “adopted” by host families in Pune. 

Past participants rank the experience of living with families as the best part of the program. Typically, the students:

  • Participate in family celebrations
  • Learn to cook
  • Interact with host-siblings and their friends
  • Learn about an Indian neighborhood by living there
  • See the family structure firsthand

 

India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Katie Blanchard Although spending five months in Pune, India was one of the most challenging things I have ever done, it was also one of the most fulfilling. India is a place where intense beauty and sadness are both intertwined and inseparable to an extreme that I have yet to see anywhere else. I felt such a sense of empowerment and success when I became able to navigate the streets of Pune by myself, or when I could hold a conversation in Marathi with my host mother or a rickshaw driver. Those little things caused me to gain a much broader understanding of the world.

—Katie Blanchard, India, Fall 2008

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