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Getting to celebrate a vivaah (a wedding) in India is an experience I’ll surely never forget. Calling this a festive occasion is an…

I have spend the last two weeks embracing a new culture and a wonderful people! It takes me awhile to process everything so I will…

This week India celebrated Holi. Holi is the festival of doing and color. People celebrate it by putting colorful powder on each other and…

This week the entire IBM CSC team had the opportunity to celebrate the Indian festival Holi. It’s also called “Festival of Colours” and…

It was a happy coincidence when we found out that our IBM Corporate Service Corps assignment would be during the same month as the Indian…

I know it’s been over two weeks since I arrived in India I but I’m a bit delayed with blogging, so I will try to cover the first few days…

Our client is designated as a “mother” NGO by the Government of Punjab and the Government of India. SOSVA promotes and strengthens the…

After a bumpy ride to Chandigarh, we settled in to our first week of work which involved two-days of orientation with our partner agency…

Early Tuesday morning (March 5), my team had our first day at the client. To quickly re-cap from one of my initial blogs, the National…

Last week our wonderful client at RCED asked if we would give a seminar to their students on the best practices of getting a job in 2019…

Last Friday March 8 we celebrated International Day of the woman with our NGO hosts RCED. The students gave speeches and played local…

On March 2nd and 3rd, we had our official Corporate Service Corps (CSC) kick-off event. I was filled with excitement to finally be…

My journey to India started with an emotional send-off by my guys at the Sacramento airport early in the morning on February 27. There…

After a “don’t want to count” hours of travel by plane, finally reached the hotel in Delhi. It was interesting to see how easy it was to…

Today we had the opportunity to join our colleagues from the Don Bosco team for a visit to celebrate Women’s Day with the children they…

I had my first taste of Masala Tea, or Chai, this Sunday. The tea is made of milk, black tea leaves, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. All…

I can’t even begin writing this blog without laughing, because when just about everything goes wrong, all you can do is laugh! That’s the…

Now we already have all the definitions of our tasks.

This is not a phrase I came up with, but the mission of Light House Bistro in Annapolis, MD. I share this story here, as I reflect and…

It’s Monday evening, and in less than 48 hours, I’ll be starting my journey back to India for a second time. My journey started years ago…

Dentro de un par de días comienza una nueva aventura en mi vida, el miércoles 27 de febrero cogeré un avión con destino a la India para…

It just hit me. I'm actually going to be in India for 40 days. I know I've known for 4 months this was going to happen, and I've travel on…