Himalayan trek

a friend from the trails it was all she could do to keep from smiling when gretchen took her photo

an unexpected view from an unexpected village at the end of a (very long, very steep) unexpected trail (eric's photo)

a man from one of the villages we trekked through (jill's photo)

some donkey (our frequent trail companions) grazing (jill's photo)

a very serious slate roof

this is a view of a village called Gangor from our path on the other side of the Tones River - i think it's worth it to click on this one to see the village a little bit better...

[ryan (staff architect) keeping several thousand gallons of water from pouring out of the wall with his finger, me (intern arch) playing "shuffle dice", a game we invented during chai time on the roof, matt p. (staff arch) claiming some rocks on the site, billy (volunteer eng) at our closing meeting in delhi, michelle (intern eng) after a long day of surveying, stuart (volunteer arch) percolating ideas on the first day, and at the bottom, us walking over the site on the first day]
[a local woman going to the well, s-minary students diging posts for the boundary fence, a lemon vendor in the bazaar, students outside a mosque classroom, a village child at the well, a young man washing in the mosque courtyard, and the squatters settlement out in front of the existing s-minary]
[the mosque mineret, lodi gardens in delhi, the national mall and an auto-rickshaw in delhi, a temple in bhopal, a roadside shrine near our side, the squatters settlement from the s-minary rooftop, and some housing near the site]
[this was part of our final presentation for the m-nistry; a few views of the campus master plan fly-through...we chose to do a fly-through to help with fund-raising in the future. we're currently finishing up the design drawings and reports so that we can hand off to Dr. M a full set to use for fund raising. FYI-we estimated that phase one of the entire campus will cost around $350,0oo (US)...this is less than many high-end suburban homes in the US.]
[the professors, a student helping with the new fence, assistant dean's children, a few of the women studying at the s-minary, the founder and head of the s-minary, Dr. M, one of the students playing cricket out front, and Matt P explaining some of our drawings and receiving feedback from Dr.M, his wife, and the staff]