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My name is Samantha Faber and I am the third person to be blogging. I am a fifth year senior accounting major. When I came across the India study abroad program through school I was immediately interested. I studied abroad for a semester in Greece and loved being able to explore a different culture. With India being a Winterm program I knew I would be able to do the program and still graduate on time. I applied for the program last spring and was accepted. Prior to leaving I was feeling excited and nervous. India is a country that many would say is outside their comfort zone but I loved the idea of experiencing such a diverse and unique culture.
Although our official university program is not started yet, I figured I'd post about our travels over to India. A group of 7 of us decided to venture to India early so we could visit the city of Varanasi. We all planned to leave on December 27th from Minneapolis together. Our flight went from Minneapolis-Newark-Frankfurt-Delhi. When we arrived we were informed of a storm that had hit the east coast so our first flight was delayed. This caused our group to be split up in order to get us to our remaining connections on time. With the way it ended up Abby and I had to completely change our flight and go to DC and then Frankfurt where we met up with the rest of the group. Everything was a bit chaotic because we were cutting our connections close but we were able to make every plane and the whole group was back together in Frankfurt. The flights were about 2.5 hours, 7 hours, and 6.5 hours long. The two longer flights had movies to watch and food to eat.
We arrived in Delhi at about 1:30am. We then proceeded to immigration for which we had filled out forms on the airplane and had our passports stamped. After that we went to baggage claim. Everyone's bags were there except Abby and I. Although it was upsetting that our bags were not there, the airline helped us fill out forms and said they should be delivered to us the next day. We both packed extra clothes and any other necessary items so we were both able to have enough for today. The other's in the group were also helpful because we didn't have some items. We were then brought to our hotel last night and finally got to bed around 4am.
Today we all woke up for breakfast where there was a variety of interesting food items including baked beans, pineapple, watermelon juice, french toast (nothing like at home), and there was an omelet bar. Although a wide variety of items, all the food was good and no one got sick. After breakfast we all got ready and met up with Aditya, a student from SRCC that is in charge of our program. He took us to the M-block market where some of us got sim cards for our phones. We then walked around and looked at all the different shops stopping in a few. After walking around we went to a restaurant where we ate a family style lunch. The food was SOOO good!
This evening we all plan on having dinner together at the hotel and then tomorrow morning we will be leaving the hotel at 6:30am to catch our flight to Varanasi.
My name is Samantha Faber and I am the third person to be blogging. I am a fifth year senior accounting major. When I came across the India study abroad program through school I was immediately interested. I studied abroad for a semester in Greece and loved being able to explore a different culture. With India being a Winterm program I knew I would be able to do the program and still graduate on time. I applied for the program last spring and was accepted. Prior to leaving I was feeling excited and nervous. India is a country that many would say is outside their comfort zone but I loved the idea of experiencing such a diverse and unique culture.
Although our official university program is not started yet, I figured I'd post about our travels over to India. A group of 7 of us decided to venture to India early so we could visit the city of Varanasi. We all planned to leave on December 27th from Minneapolis together. Our flight went from Minneapolis-Newark-Frankfurt-Delhi. When we arrived we were informed of a storm that had hit the east coast so our first flight was delayed. This caused our group to be split up in order to get us to our remaining connections on time. With the way it ended up Abby and I had to completely change our flight and go to DC and then Frankfurt where we met up with the rest of the group. Everything was a bit chaotic because we were cutting our connections close but we were able to make every plane and the whole group was back together in Frankfurt. The flights were about 2.5 hours, 7 hours, and 6.5 hours long. The two longer flights had movies to watch and food to eat.
We arrived in Delhi at about 1:30am. We then proceeded to immigration for which we had filled out forms on the airplane and had our passports stamped. After that we went to baggage claim. Everyone's bags were there except Abby and I. Although it was upsetting that our bags were not there, the airline helped us fill out forms and said they should be delivered to us the next day. We both packed extra clothes and any other necessary items so we were both able to have enough for today. The other's in the group were also helpful because we didn't have some items. We were then brought to our hotel last night and finally got to bed around 4am.
Today we all woke up for breakfast where there was a variety of interesting food items including baked beans, pineapple, watermelon juice, french toast (nothing like at home), and there was an omelet bar. Although a wide variety of items, all the food was good and no one got sick. After breakfast we all got ready and met up with Aditya, a student from SRCC that is in charge of our program. He took us to the M-block market where some of us got sim cards for our phones. We then walked around and looked at all the different shops stopping in a few. After walking around we went to a restaurant where we ate a family style lunch. The food was SOOO good!
This evening we all plan on having dinner together at the hotel and then tomorrow morning we will be leaving the hotel at 6:30am to catch our flight to Varanasi.
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