CURRENT MISSION

Making it.

ABOUT ME

I just returned to India (round four!) where I live and work in Delhi.

My stuff: http://www.kassiakarr.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kassiakarr
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kollyglot
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/kassiakarr

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been hosted by, met, and traveled with several CSers in India.

Interests

• performing arts
• festivals
• walking
• shopping
• flowers
• traveling
• music
• rock climbing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Lately: Jellyfish Brigade, John Roberts, Nicholas Jaar, The Weeknd.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Highlights from my first trip to India:

One: an impromptu carnatic music performance inside the temple in Trichy, with a temple elephant just feet away from us and a group of devotees watching with us while waiting for the goddess' daily procession out of the sanctum sanctorum.

Two: during the Chittirai festival in Madurai, going to the temple for shopping, and happening upon a drum line, temple elephant, group of camels, and a bull all within the same 50-foot radius.

Three: going to Alagar Kovil with an American acquaintance, being led up to the goddess and generously given large tikas and flower garlands.

Four: walking out of my hotel in residential, middle class Bangalore and seeing a camel walking in front of me.

Five: waking up to the beautiful call to prayer at the mosque outside my lodge in Triplicane in Chennai. I always stayed there whenever I went to Chennai, just because I loved listening to the call to prayer.

Six: watching the aarti on the Ganga at night in Varanasi. Nearly walking into the burning ghats there as well, which looked and felt like hell.

Seven: watching the Karnataka landscape outside my train to Goa in December, feeling like I'd never seen a prettier countryside.

Highlights from my second trip to India:

- Driving through the mountains on the way from Manali to Leh.

- Watching the nightly ceremony at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

- Sitting in the energetic audience on the Indian side of the Wagah border.

- Living in a village in Tamil Nadu for a month.

Other travel highlights include climbing Mayan ruins in the Peten in Guatemala, soaking in a geothermal hot tub next to the Atlantic while it snowed in Iceland, and crossing the longest fjord in Europe by ferry in Norway.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Norway

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, United States

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