High Altitude Life Changing Experience Past Review

I gained a profound insight into the lived experiences of a people who I had previously only read about, or could have pointed out on a map but did not consider in any real or meaningful sense. I had been abroad a small amount as a teenager with my family, and though I followed international events and cared about global politics, I had never before so fully felt a witness and a part of the world not as an American, or a millennial, or a college students, or even a political activist, but as a person. I saw what were hands down the most beautiful landscapes I've ever encountered--before and after. I ate fantastic Nepali and tibetan food, studied a difficult and foreign language. I gained an isight into Buddhism as a lived practice and not merely a philosophy to be studied by college students, scholars and Western-atheists. And I made friendships with my peers, my teachers, and with local people that I still hold dear to this day. This past year I went to one of my co-SIT student's weeding; I still maintain, four years after my time at SIT, a deep correspondence with my writing advisor from the program. I feel a better, wiser more empowered and more engaged person as a result of my time with SIT in Nepal, and have not ceased to be grateful for my time there since I left.