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This morning, we split up into two groups to visit two different schools in Delhi that are Roshni’s partners. Here, we met the families of the Roshni girls and had a “Town Hall” [...]

Today we finally got to meet the Roshni girls! We started getting to know them with icebreakers and presentations about New Delhi and the Bay Area. Then each Casti girl was paired with her Roshni [...]

We’ve combined a few posts to make it more convenient for everyone! Enjoy!   Sophie: Friday morning was all about preparation for the closing ceremony. We rose at the crack of dawn, [...]

Yesterday was the day we’d all been waiting for — a visit to the Taj Mahal! The day began early, and we boarding the buses quickly. The 3 hour bus ride to Agra was painless as most of [...]

There may be a reason white girls my age don’t wear kurtas back home but at the moment I can’t think of one because I look #stylin. This is how the day begins– with knee length [...]

The day began bright and early at the Indian Cultural Center with the Roshni girls. We would spend our time sharing sample classes with each other. Castilleja presented activities teaching girls [...]

We managed to catch up on sleep last night, hitting our beds by 8:30. This morning we were again greeted by an excellent breakfast. Afterwards, we spent an hour being briefed for our visit to [...]

Finally! After 25 hours of air travel, we are in Delhi. Baby count on the first plane: 3. Baby count on the second plane: infinite. There were infinite crying babies. For seven and a half hours. [...]

Welcome to the blog for the India Global Investigator’s trip! We’re so excited to be sharing the events leading up to our trip and our experiences in India with you all. Over the past [...]

So concludes our Global Investigators voyage… or, at least, the part spent in India. After a quiet breakfast (we knew that after today we would have no more Colonel’s Retreat banana bread), we [...]