In the Spring of 2015, I got to go to India with my partner and meet his family while he took people around the country for a yoga tour. It was my first time visiting India, and I documented some of the things I saw in this prose-poem. I call it “Travel Highlights” as […]
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Dear Girls
You will hold a special place in my heart. I see the fire in you as you dance on stage with your sisters. Your faces suggest pain, but your dance reflects your covert passion. I sit next to the drunken man during the performance hoping you will never encounter his wrath. I hope the man you […]
Fine Tuning
Natural Reverence The pines on the trees grow in spherical shapes The sky is not merely blue here, but a haze of grey blanketing what could be blue The air is thin 6000 feet up and dusted with sandalwood incense The buzzing of birds and insects let me not forget I was in the mountains: […]
Red Threads
I got the bracelet in India. I thought the 50-rupee red string bracelet (75 cents) would adorn my wrist nicely as a reminder of my trip. Photos could only depict so much, and my memory tends to fade. The bracelet was a rich reminder of the people whose lives I entered briefly and the mark […]
I Am Home
I am home, I am home, I am home! India. How to explain India? Colorful and alive, bustling and loud, overwhelming and breathtaking, heartbreaking and beautiful. Bangalore is a heart, beating to the rhythm of auto rickshaw horns, marketplace haggling, sizzling dosas and the tantalizing aroma of Indian filter coffee decoction, kept alive by a […]
Why Study Abroad Sucks
It’s 2:34am. Your listening session of Yeezus by Kanye West reaches its 5th or 6th cycle. It’s 6am. Wake up. Pop Anti-Malarial Meds. Lie down. It’s 6:30am, you should not have lain down. Commence nausea and gagging repeatedly over your toilet bowl. It’s 4pm, mom and dad drive you to the airport and the pit […]
A Short Story about Pooping My Pants
Hi. My name is Erin, and I pooped my pants. I was twenty one years old. I was in control of my own movements and self. I had an accessible toilet. And yet, despite all logic that would explain otherwise, I pooped my pants. It was a sunny and clear morning in the Indian Himalayan […]
Showering is a Bore
Showering is such a bore. It takes so long, and then it takes even longer to get yourself ready afterwards. Why do people shower so much? I probably smell fine, and I haven’t showered since Monday. It’s overrated. It’s wasteful. It’s too much effort. And then you have to clean the shower. Why do I […]
Study Abroad in the Himalayas
Below is a story of a tour I took during my study abroad trip to India over the summer of 2014. Excerpts from the journal I was keeping at the time, as well as photographs, are included. 23 June, 2014 “Today, we embarked on the Salaam Balaak Trust Street Walk. We met our guide by […]