People will ask me what I saw while I was in India and there have been so many new sights, I am not sure which stories I will tell. The vehicles, roads and rules of the road come to mind quickly. I found travel to be both exhilarating and terrifying! And, I loved to see the different vehicles along the way. There were entire families on motorcycles, a cow in an auto rickshaw, and bicycles holding up an amazing collection of fruit or veggies. I was not able to get pictures of everything or every possible mode of transportation, but here are a few. Other sites that struck me as very different included the crops or agriculture. Tea and Rice were both big crops in the state of Tripura. The Rubber Trees were everywhere! We were able to stop and take a closer look during our drive. The trees are tapped in a similar fashion to tapping maple trees in Michigan. The taps allow rubber to flow into small buckets that are harvested and rolled into small, flat sheets of rubber. These are sold and they are a valuable commodity in this region. I also enjoyed the beautiful trees on the grounds of the Brilliant Stars School.
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Jane PhillipsJane Phillips is a teacher at Okemos High School in Okemos, Michigan. In the summer of 2017, she travelled to India with the U.S. State Department as part of the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program. Archives
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