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Anganwadi with our whole group! Which is quite the feat after all of the sickness happening. We got absolutely drenched, it was pouring and the water was so gross and brown that we just had to walk through waterfalls over the road of to get there and back. We aren't leaving the home base the rest of the day though so that will be a good break. Today was a lot of just hanging out and having good conversations about anything from politics to religion to about the program we're on. We got to have a really good conversation with Laura, the trip director, about everything from the home base to the food, which is kind of a touchy subject for us, to even how we feel during group discussions. I've loved all of the bonding time and I love that even through the completely terrible sicknesses we are all still getting really close. Speaking of sickness: a boy named Bruke and I are the only two who haven't gotten sick yet which is really odd because we are the two who threw up on the way to Dharamsala. It interesting and we are hoping we got the bacteria out of our systems then but we can only hope! 

Tonight we watched a TedTalk called The Dangerous of a Single Story. It was amazing to hear how a "single story" of a place or type of people can affect those people. It was almost about stereotypes but at the same time it was more about how we grow up seeing that culture through media and other outlets. Just like the woman in the video who grew up in Africa but lived in a "normal" city with cars and a "regular" life - I put so much it quotes because those are very relative terms and I hope you can see what I mean and also see that that may not be normal to someone else. So when she gained an American roommate they asked many questions about her lifestyle and assumed things like that the speaker didn't know how to use a stove or listened to tribal music, but was absolutely shocked when she asked the speaker to play some music she put on a Mariah Carey album. This talk was a very different perspective and I highly recommend it. 
https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg