Hello friends and families! Today we are embarking on our last and final trek through Markha Valley. This will be our most challenging and longest trek yet! The trek will be 7 days long and we will not be able to have any Internet connection. We......Read More
Hello hello! We are back from our wonderful homestay in Domkhar. The students had a wonderful time harvesting barley, helping their homestay families cook delicious meals and playing with all manner of tiny humans and animals. Tomorrow morning, we......Read More
Waking up at 4:35am is tough. Climbing a mountain at 5 am is tougher. The group woke up to climb SECMOL mountain in the wee hours of the morning. Although the hike up the towering mountain was not as hard as I thought, this treacherous mountain pass......Read More
Over the past week at SECMOL (Students Education Cultural Movement of Ladakh) we have been implemented not only into conversation classes, a block of time with the students invented to refine their conversational skills in English, but into their......Read More
Yesterday, July 12, our adventurous group ventured into the thriving metropolis of Leh, Ladakh. After completing our mid course surveys, we had time to explore the unknown in this historic city. Soon into our adventure, we stumbled across a dried......Read More
Dear Indus River, You inspire me to take photos. Whenever you are in the photo, it is a great photo. The other day I woke up very early, so I decided to watch the sunrise. I walked to where I saw the sun rising. This brought me to the edge of......Read More
Thank you SECMOL students for: 1. Teaching the beauty of making quick, lasting friends 2. Taking pride and ownership of the work you do 3. Having 3 tea times in a day (now a necessity for me) 4. Understanding the importance of having a sense of......Read More
I constantly gasp Ladakh’s thin air, searching for more oxygen, but it is in this place that I feel I can finally breathe. I’m without hoards of people in a glamorous city life, yet still come across glamor in the seasoned smiles of......Read More
Starting at 5:00 AM SECMOL time, 4:00 actual/Leh time, dragons grouped together with our water bottles filled and our headlights on and ready. SECMOL is one hour ahead of Leh time on account of the community’s reliance on sunlight to complete......Read More
Leh is filled with all types of people, from dried fruit vendors that each of us has visited multiple times and aggressive pashmina scarf salesmen to monks in all red outfits and tourists with sunglasses and a hand perched on their head to block out......Read More
Dear Bomb Guard, You have opened my eyes to the landfills that are slowly becoming the world we inhabit. You show us that, although waste may be invisible to some, it is always there, infecting our water and plaguing our land. Seeing you has made me......Read More