teaching is learning
It is hard to believe that I will be home in a month. It is even harder to believe that I have been in India for just over a month. I have learned more than I could ever have imagined in a matter of 30-something days. A few of the lessons I have learned so far... Joy exists everywhere, you have to be willing to see it! There are many things that I have come to appreciate about a simpler life that I was initially very overwhelmed by. Take hand-washing my clothes. Whenever I buy a garment that is marked hand-wash only , I bring it to the dry cleaner after a certain amount of wears and then I pick it up a few days later without giving it any thought. While I brought zero garments marked hand-wash only with me to Shanti Bhavan, all of my garments have been hand-washed. At first, I hated this task and I remember reflecting with a fellow volunteer that my dryer in Boston runs for 60-minutes while here I spend 60-minutes physically scrubbi...