Rebecca Borowski
Rebecca, a 1st grade teacher at Ponderosa in Fayetteville, N.C., was married this past summer. She was the first runner up for Cumberland County Schools Teacher of the Year in 2007. She also conducts workshops for teachers on how to teach math. Her hobbies include reading, writing, traveling, and working with children.
January 1, 2008
We arrived at the airport in Mumbai (Bombay) this morning at about 2 AM. We had to leave the international airport and take a taxi to the domestic airport. It was a very enlightening experience! The traffic here is very busy, even at that time in the morning, and cars stop for no one!
We’ll keep you posted! Hope your New Year’s Eve celebrations went well!
Love, Rebecca
January 2, 2008
Today we leave our hotel and go stay with our respective host families. I met some of the members of my host family yesterday, and they were all very nice. I’m sure they will take good care of me. Last night we had a very interesting experience at our first Indian ATM. I will let Brook tell you that story, though! We ran out of toilet paper in our hotel room, and when I went to ask for more at the desk, there was a lot lost in translation. It was pretty funny. I spent several minutes trying to explain that I wanted toilet paper. I kept saying “toilet” and “roll”, trying to convince them that I did not want a newspaper. Finally, they looked like they understood so they went to the back room to get it. I was feeling very proud of myself for successfully communicating, and I could hardly contain myself when the man proudly presented me with 3 sheets of copy paper. I politely took it, said thank you, then let Shagun go back and take care of finding some toilet paper! I’m still feeling a little bit like a fish out of water, but after only 2 days, there are already several stories to tell, so I know this is going to be an adventurous trip!
Talk to you soon!
