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Jalandhar Slideshow
Jalandhar
Travel Blogs from Jalandhar, India
Hitch hiking on a school bus, just another day.
... , and then taken to meet a new intern. Phew! This was also the period where I felt like I had fallen in love with India. I loved how unpredictable and exciting every day was. I came to love all of the random events, strange things that I saw, and ...
Getting Worn Down
... neither were able to send me replacement cards, leaving me with a dwindling cash supply and no means of accessing my bank account in India. It took a month, but my parents were finally able to wrangle a debit card out of the bank for me. And the ...
Ahem...It's Coming Out the Other End
... if I had severe Traveler's Diarrhea then the antibiotics should work. They didn't. After this dismal experience with health care in India, I returned to my village and found the other interns there. I felt pretty sick and miserable, plus the fog had ...
'The Real' Punjab
We had a driver take us about an hour from Ludhiana to Phagwara (pronounced Fug-wha-rah) to Mandip's Aunt’s house, where her Mom and brother had arrived the night before. Phagwara is a city but it is much less developed than Ludhiana and has a lot ...
More of where it all began...
We also went to the village called Saraan (pronounced Suh-rahn) where Mandip's Mom was born. Her maternal grandfather’s house, although not used, was still intact. Mandip’s Mom took us to a row of houses and asked us ...
BREAKDOWN!
... the medication but was willing to do anything to make the sickness disappear! Mandip was wiped out all day, so we stayed home and took it easy. It was bound to happen as almost every trip to India is accompanied by at least 24 hours of stomach ...
3 T-shirts, 1 Pair of Pants, and 1 Roll of TP
... around 9 or so interns living in the house, and Mr. B was the director of the organization I was volunteering with, EduCARE India. I was under the impression that I would be living in Sotla with the other interns, and working on the women's empowerment ...
India Wins!!!!
... and joy. India's cricket team did not disappoint. We (Ricky) had really gotten into the cup after our first visit to Jalandhar when his cousin, Rishi explained the full rules to him. Then, while way up in the mountains, we listened to the India ...