Three groups of students are focused this week on one destination. The US students took off four days ago from San Francisco International Airport, and have already experienced their introduction to New Delhi. A world apart for them! Our video crew and a photographer are accompanying them. We’ll catch up with them again on Sunday. In San Francisco, it was a rainy morning, and the photo here is of runway 28L as seen thru my window.
Their motivation is named Project Happiness. And they are going to India to meet The Dalai Lama, the author of their textbook.
Two students, and their teacher, from Nigeria will begin their journey tomorrow, and will join the US students in New Delhi on Saturday. We’ll capture their impressions later on.
At the destination itself, in India, students at the Tibetan Children’s Village are preparing to meet and host the visitors.
The US students are blogging as they go, with their dispatches appearing at the Santa Cruz Sentinel blog site.
The Nigerian students will be bringing additional video (see Project Happiness “TV” for more video) which we will upload to our site. For some good background, if you haven’t seen it yet, check those videos!
This trip is the culmination of the better part of a year of study of ethics for these students. During the upcoming summer (US June-August) some of the students will be preparing study materials for a “curriculum” unit that will be available for other schools. Once this material is finished, additional schools will begin participating in Project Happiness later in 2007.
My next entry will be from India. I am on a short layover in Chicago, waiting for the 15-hour all-day (or is it all-night?) flight to New Delhi.
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