My semester was over. The 105 intense days of safari, camping, readings, learning Swahili, living with the most amazing host family and almost permanent human interaction with the other 19 students was had come to an end. Thankfully my time in Africa wasn’t ending – I still had 4 weeks and a recently booked flight…
I ended up in Mexico by accident (?)
I love Mexico! I had been here twice, once on a family holiday to the Yucatan peninsula and another two and a half years ago visiting some close family friends closely involved with Africam Safari, a zoo heavily involved in regional conservation projects. Jointly those trips don’t even add up to 20 days, clearly not…
I moved! Again, and yet again…
Its again almost been a year since my last update, but I’ve moved to Africa! Actually, since my last writing in Cambodia I moved back to Singapore to start my sophomore year in college and decided to study abroad. If one has lived in countries like Colombia, India and Cambodia, then it’s easy to get…
National park expedition
It’s now well over two month since I came to Cambodia. Now I live in Phnom Penh and have fallen into a wake up – office – pool – sleep routine. I take a motorbike or a tuk tuk for the 4-kilometer journey to and from the office, dealing with the horrendous Cambodian traffic twice…
Going back and first week as an intern
Colombia-India-Colombia-India-Colombia-Singapore-India-Singapore-Colombia-Singapore and so on… this constant back and forth really makes me wonder where my home is and where is it that I belong. Coming to Colombia is always a relief, it means family and old friends. India is the country I miss, the place where I learnt to be free. Singapore is where…
A year gone by
Classes are over and finals period is at its peak. I should probably be writing a paper but, actually there is no but, I’m just consciously avoiding work… sounds like most of my semester to be honest. Finals period means, however, that my freshmen year is over! How the hell did a year pass by…
Whatever happened to Adolfo
It’s been almost 2 years since my last post. Life is different now: I’m no longer 17, I no longer live in India and my thick rock walled house in rural Maharashtra has been replaced by a small room in a 15th floor somewhere in the west of Singapore. So many things are different…
One day in New York
(Note: This post is ahead of time as I still have to write about Argentina & summer at home) So as I was looking for plane tickets to return to India for my second year I came across a cheap ticket from Miami to Mumbai via Newark (New Jersey); however, I would have a 12 hour…
The journey back…
Note: The following blogpost will be written in 3 different countries across a 3 day lapse which is the time I would take to arrive to Colombia Day 1: 2:45 PM, 23 May 2015 (Indian time, India) It is less than half an hour before the graduation ceremony begins, and with it the end of…
What the hell am I doing here? My UWC story
This is a question that I get asked quite a lot, and sometimes I even ask myself. As you might imagine there are not that many 17 year old Colombians that live in India, 16000 km away from their families. Well, the answer is UWC. The UWCs or United World Colleges are a set of…
Chronicles of the Traveller 