In her book Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
She goes to India to volunteer, teaching English in an orphanage, because of an interesting interview with Ed Wayne, an American Jew, who has retired from the oil business but uses his money in Belgrade to get things done. Because he can; because he can do things without red tape or government interference; because his interpretation of “never again” is “never again for anybody.’
Along the way, she goes to an Ashram and to another Ashram that someone tells her she must go to.
She also meets a sculptor who ships his things back home after he sculpts in India.
Anyway, her volunteer trip is definitely not 5* and she changes the names to protect the innocent. It is the trip from hell in many ways, not necessarily so much where she is or the accommodations, though they are very primitive, but the folks she associates with who are volunteering.
I have never been to India and I haven’t volunteered over seas. Have you?
Karin
Originally posted 2007-06-16 14:08:54.
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