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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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Katie Rogers For a while I felt like maybe I’d bitten off more than I could chew, because the types of euphoria and stress and sadness that I felt in India are some that, until the fall of 2010, I didn’t even know existed. ACM India was a welcome escape from old emotions, but it was by no means an emotional vacation. Still, I have never had a single regret. My semester in India made an immense impact on my life; it contributed to many subtle, welcome changes in my spirit; and I believe it made my study abroad experience infinitely more fulfilling for me than if I had traveled to a Western nation.

—Katie Rogers, India, Fall 2010

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