A lifetime of adventures across India (and the rest of the world..): 1. When I was 18 years old, I joined a volunteer tourism program which was heavily subsidized by the Singapore government. I spent a month in Kolkata in the Sonagachi red light district working with the kids of sex workers, most of them trafficked. We worked with an organization that provided services to their kids. Up till that point I’d led a fairly privileged life in Singapore as a middle class kid who wanted for nothing. But that experience showed me that I wanted to do more than volunteer tourism. I also describe my month in Kolkata as ‘the trip where life suddenly made sense for me’, in that I developed a sense of how I wanted to live the rest of my life. Not in Singapore. Not as a corporate worker in the financial district. I wanted to build deep relationships in that country and I loved everything about it. Six months later I would come back on my own for my first 55-day solo trip around India. #India #Travel