Click here to view our Picture GalleryDelhi, India - May 4, 2005.
I have arrived in Delhi, India!! My friend, and Project Ambassador, Ashima picked me up from the airport yesterday afternoon and her family drove me to her aunt's in the middle of Delhi where I will be staying until Saturday. (On Saturday Ashima and I travel north to Dehradun ...where she lives).
Yesterday I spent time with Ashima's family and rested (a large time diference between here and Boston!). But, today we worked at the St. Columba school (participants of One World Youth Project).
The group within the school is called the Eco Columbans and they have done AMAZING work for the environment here in India! Most of their projects focus around Waste Management. Actually, the day we arrived, student leader, Harshit, found out that he had won the Young Eco Hero Award!!
Today we showed the Eco Columbans the documentary from their sister-school in Salem, Oregon and also the cultural exchange box from Oregon! They loved looking through all the letters the Salem students had written (one student was so excited that he decided to have 13 penpals!). The students also started working on their declaration to the United Nations.
This afternoon Ashima and I went around Delhi with Nidhi (Harshit's older sister)... we traveled to the India Gate and the Modern Art Museum of Delhi.
We spent most of the afternoon in Nidhi's and Harshit's house...eating, talking, and working on the documentary.
I will write more later!
-Jess :)
Yesterday I spent time with Ashima's family and rested (a large time diference between here and Boston!). But, today we worked at the St. Columba school (participants of One World Youth Project).
The group within the school is called the Eco Columbans and they have done AMAZING work for the environment here in India! Most of their projects focus around Waste Management. Actually, the day we arrived, student leader, Harshit, found out that he had won the Young Eco Hero Award!!
Today we showed the Eco Columbans the documentary from their sister-school in Salem, Oregon and also the cultural exchange box from Oregon! They loved looking through all the letters the Salem students had written (one student was so excited that he decided to have 13 penpals!). The students also started working on their declaration to the United Nations.
This afternoon Ashima and I went around Delhi with Nidhi (Harshit's older sister)... we traveled to the India Gate and the Modern Art Museum of Delhi.
We spent most of the afternoon in Nidhi's and Harshit's house...eating, talking, and working on the documentary.
I will write more later!
-Jess :)
