After he spent some time in the north and surfing in south India, Gerald Smith—my partner and traveling companion in Mahe—wrote an appreciation about our host, Rathnakaran, and some of the work we did together. Here’s what he said: Mr. Smith’s Blog Post.
Read moreOur second day in Mahe began with a relaxing yoga session with Hakeem, the yoga instructor at Jawahar Novodaya Vidyalaya, and Rathnakaran, the school’s principal. It ended after 9:00 p.m. with a cultural evening of traditional Hindi and Malala dancing and drumming at the school. Along the way, Gerald and I ate wonderful South Indian meals, saw the area, and visited classrooms. I found that Indian students love pencils and almost created a riot in the schoolyard when I started
Read moreMahe, a small town of 40,000 on the southwest coast of India, faces the Arabian Sea. We arrived at the brand-new Kannur Airport after a four-hour flight from New Delhi. I’m traveling with Gerald Smith, a math teacher from Indiana, Pennsylvania. Mahe was liberated from French control in July 1954. The municipal area covers about nine square kilometers (3.5 square miles) and Mahe is one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry. Mahe was liberated from French
Read moreThe Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) is sending me to India in July. This blog is part of my capstone project or Global Education Guide (GEG). It will capture my day-to-day activity this summer as I travel from Vermont to London, New Delhi, Mahe, and other Indian cities, back to London, and then to Vermont. For me, the trip begins on Sunday, 30 June 2019 with a flight from Burlington VT to Philadelphia and then to Heathrow in the
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