How The Journey Began!
January 23, 2017

I was excited and very very happy!

The opportunity to represent my country at the prestigious TEA program had come my way and I intended to make the most of it. Through a series of arduous tests, interviews and orientations four teachers from India had been finally selected for the fall 2017 program. I am one of them!

I began my TEA journey from Kolkata today, January 23, 2017. Seeing the fantastic Mumbai airport was surely one of the highlights of this journey. Beautiful and well maintained are two words that come to mind when one arrives at this busy airport—so proud of it.

Traveling is fun when one has good company! At Mumbai I met two of my co-participants—now I had GREAT company. We were all excited about this new stint in our lives and were happily exchanging notes on how each one of us had prepared for this program.

Asha and Ashok....my Indian colleagues!

Waiting at the Mumbai airport lounge for the flight to Frankfurt I watched passengers hurrying off or silently waiting for their flight to their destination. Airports are such amazing places—everybody is either coming or going somewhere…..everything is in transit.

Frankfurt Airport....Washington, here I come! 

Time for our flight to Washington D.C…...