The Big Field Trip

From The Big Field Trip – India, January, 2010

I lived with the Ranawat family for 2 months, and I learned a lot about Indian family life. The Ranawat family lives in Udaipur, which is in the state of Rajasthan in North West India. They are Rajput people from the warrior caste, and they practice the [...]

The flowery smell of incense floats in the air, mixing with clouds of smoke from burning trash. Dogs yelp as car horns honk. A two year old child with no shirt runs into the traffic to beg from tourists. The streets of India are different from the streets of the USA. They sometimes scare me. [...]

Indian food has always been one of my favorite foods. It has always been a special treat for me. It is very flavorful and spicy. Indian food has many different varieties, North Indian food and South Indian food differ greatly. Indian food is delicious.
Some things in the north and south of India are the same. The [...]

Rajasthan Tour
India is crazy. There are stray dogs and holy cows (cows are sacred in the Hindu religion) roaming the streets, open sewers and trash everywhere. India is the country with the 2nd most people, behind China. India’s population is about 1,198,000,000, so there are people everywhere. There isn’t a lot of privacy in India; [...]