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India: Culture, Traditions, & Globalization

Pune, India

Living arrangements

A tour of a student's host family

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

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Elizabeth Weigler I loved my experience on the ACM India program. I walked away from it with wonderful friends, more confidence, a greater appreciation for the people around me, a more complete and robust framework of the world, and a better knowledge of what I am capable of. They all sound like stereotypical things you say, but the atmosphere, the people, even the bad experiences, all benefited me somehow, and I can truly say that I affected other's lives as they did mine. I never thought I could change my comfort zone so drastically and love it so much. I'll cherish every spoken and unspoken experience and lesson, carrying them with me where ever I go. I will always feel at home in Pune.

—Elizabeth Weigler, India, Fall 2008

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