Joshi-Staples Family India Adventure!
Follow our travel adventure as we live our everyday life in Pune, India
First, Happy Thanksgiving!! We hope everyone had a lovely turkey day. Our Thursday was a “regular” day here. Alex told some friends it was Thanksgiving, and they proceeded to walk around the classroom, shaking hands with friends, and saying, “Happy Thanksgiving.” Pretty funny. So this post continues the theme of bits of daily life. I …
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“Do not be a person of your time Daily Life I realized we’d been doing so many posts about travels and visits that we really haven’t offered much insight into the day-to-day. So, here’s a post with a few topics. Food and Cooking Here are just a few pics of amazing meals we’ve had. Getting …
This post rounds out the Diwali break record. As noted in an earlier blog, Uncle Tom, Aunt Robyn, and Grammy (aka Mom/Barbara) showed up in Pune after a trans-Atlantic flight. We were so thrilled to have them visit! An earlier post was about our first few days (NDA visit, Aga Khan Palace). This finishes the …
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We got a little out of order, but this post fills in some more of Diwali break, which was 2 weeks. We posted on Diwali, which is really the first few days of Diwali break. We also posted on the start of family visiting (whoot! whoot!), which started about half way through Diwali break. This …
Diwali happened about 2 weeks ago, but we haven’t had a chance to post yet! So, here it is – with apologies for the delay. First, Diwali is the festival of lights. It celebrates when Ram was basically reinstalled in the thrown. It symbolizes the power of light over darkness, or good over evil. Here, …
Hello all! I thought I’d jump over our backlog and do a post on the family arriving, and NDA – the National Defence Academy! Whew hew! After about 24 hours of travel door-to- (hotel) door, my mom, Aunt Robyn and Uncle Tom arrived on Halloween – with a wonderful assortment of candy, stickers, pez dispensers …
Well, we’re getting there… Hopefully we’ll post the rest of the Delhi trip soon. After this trip, we have Diwali, a trip to Pune, and then relatives came to visit! Somehow we’ll get on top of things… After our Elephantastic experience, we went to Amer Fort and drove by Jah Mahal. Amer Fort was very …
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Alex was the guest blogger for this post! (We actually are glad she came with us when we left. We thought she might find a way to stay behind…. ) We had another great adventure! (And in Jaipur!) This is our elephant. Our elephant’s name was Chun-Chill which means naughty one! (And Chun-chills name is …
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Well, I’m/we’re way behind on posts! Parag nicely has filled in some less time-anchored posts, which is nice. I think I left off at Day 3 of our Delhi-Agra-Jaipur trip, so here’s a post on Day 4, which was our time in Agra ( Maybe a map would help… . These three cities are known …
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We planned our India Adventure to try to live an everyday life in India and to immerse ourselves in the culture. Because Cadi and Alex have been attending a local school, they have had a much more immersive experience than Meg or myself! So, what’s school like in India and how is it different or …
Joshi-Staples Family India Adventure!