Adventures in India

In June 2005, I will be taking a trip to India to volunteer with an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions. This is a log about my thoughts and adventures as I prepare, embark, and return from this trip.

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Location: Indianapolis, IN, United States

How does one describe themselves...I am a girl, brownish blonde curly hair, 5'3. I usually mess up phrases and my friends endearingly call them brookisms. I love to sit on a porch swing with a cup of tea (not coffee). I have a ton of questions rolling around in my head but I am not sure if I am allowed to ask them. I am a mess, not very impressive...but I am lovely and full of life. I want to love well. I like to decorate and dream of fixing up homes. I want to have more courage to be with the poor...truly be with them not just charity. I want to be able to garden but currently suck at it. I am trying to learn French but I am a numbers girl and I have trouble speaking English. I want to travel to beautiful places but I wish I could see every place as beautiful. I want to learn how to scuba dive. I would rather go to a mountain lake than the ocean beach. I find water very therapeutic and wish I could be around it more.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Purchasing Tickets

We are off....we just finished purchasing the plane tickets. The only way out now is to lose a lot of money. I am not sure if this makes it feel any more real. I am looking online for good hotel prices for New Delhi. We will be spending a week in New Delhi before we go to Dharamsala for the volunteer placement in CCS. I may have mentioned going to Hyderbad before but it looks like those plans may change...actually, we are kind of waiting for the adventure and going to see if we end up in Hyderbad or New Delhi. But I think it will be New Delhi. Looking for the hotel is sort of exciting because I get to research a little about the area and it builds my anticipation.

I was just given a book by Ed Sena entitled "Revolution in World Missions". It talks a lot about Gospel for Asia and redefining our American view on missions. Rather than sending people to Asia to support the native missionaries that are already there. It also has challenged me to be more of a steward about my resources and to care more about the spiritual aspects of people than just their physical needs. I am not exactly sure where it will lead me but it has begun to challenge a lot of what I am thinking. I really would like to meet with some Gospel for Asia missionaries while in India but I don't know if that will be possible. In the meantime, I am exploring the possibility.

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