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So begins the trek back home. Time to pack up our belongings, make one final visit into Auroville, travel in the Tempo for the last long ride in video game engineered like traffic, and step into the airport and embrace the lessons we have learned.
Reflecting on how much we have experienced in just two weeks is joyfully exhausting:
- meeting sponsored students
- meeting the new bishop of the ALC church
- visiting multiple schools spread throughout Tamil Nadu in urban and rural settings
- observing classes
- volunteering with the English + Program
- traveling to the Timothy Center and seeing how child labor can be fought
- the historic Lebenon Home ministry for widows and destitute women
- going to a new community college that is just starting up and showing incredible potential
- looking into the eyes of children of extreme poverty and seeing their need and joyful nature
- hearing reports from local LPGM staff
- visitng Hindu temples and even being led by the high priest at one of the key religious sites
- hiking
- forming connections with one another in our group and beyond
- experiencing an idealized society of human oneness in Aurville
- the variety and frequency of vehicle horn calls
The list could be endless. It is shocking how many perspective changing experiences can happen in only two weeks.
Once we get home --Will my job still have meaning? Will my current efforts be enough? Will my routines simply take over?Will I simply forget? hope not.
I want to take these experiences and continue to grow in y understanding and to find more ways to connect.
Time to go home. Time to get to work on what comes next.
Ty Thayer
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