Hello All,
I have one week left of vacation before heading back to school. School will not officially start until the 2nd of Feb, but I will be back the 14th to get moved into a new apartment and get to know the new IGs. This previous week has been wonderful. I have been in the home of a family or had people over almost every night. This group is big into building relationships, so that is what we are doing. Most of the time I am kinda confused because most of the people only speak Hindi. As most of you know I speak nooooooo Hindi, so I just sit and smile a lot. Because of that I have been told multiple times that I am cute for my big smile and fair skin. If you did not know this...in countries that people are naturally dark being light is the thing. Compared to in the US everyone wants to be dark. Here people actually use bleaches to make them selves fair. I have loved getting to see life of these families. I can not wait to see more in the coming week.
-Melissa
I have one week left of vacation before heading back to school. School will not officially start until the 2nd of Feb, but I will be back the 14th to get moved into a new apartment and get to know the new IGs. This previous week has been wonderful. I have been in the home of a family or had people over almost every night. This group is big into building relationships, so that is what we are doing. Most of the time I am kinda confused because most of the people only speak Hindi. As most of you know I speak nooooooo Hindi, so I just sit and smile a lot. Because of that I have been told multiple times that I am cute for my big smile and fair skin. If you did not know this...in countries that people are naturally dark being light is the thing. Compared to in the US everyone wants to be dark. Here people actually use bleaches to make them selves fair. I have loved getting to see life of these families. I can not wait to see more in the coming week.
-Melissa
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