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I'm not doing this project to necessarily make new longterm friends, or go have a drink with these people. Nor is it to pass any judgements on ones life. My goal is to simply meet interesting, and maybe not so interesting strangers who I wouldve never taken the time to talk to otherwise. One that may differ, or perhaps relate to my own life. So many times, you walk past someone, and they wont even raise their head in the slightest to say hello. I'll never understand why. The challenge to myself is not only to surpass that simple hello with one person a day, but to convince them to look into my lens and tell me something about themselves. My name is Amanda Surkin, and this is my journey of meeting 100 new faces. Take the time to listen, you may learn something :)

Monday, April 2, 2012

Stranger #50

Meet Jincy Varughese.


"My family is from India. I was born there and came here when I was 4. I actually went to India with my sister for the first time two years ago, and rode an elephant. My goal was to ride an elephant, and that's all I wanted to do! I went without my mom which was a very bad decision. I stayed for a month and lived with my grandmom, uncle, and aunt. They're older so they're very traditional. Culturally speaking, it's very different. It wasn't the most pleasant experience; they're just a lot more modest there. It was the middle of summer so you had to cover up or it would be considered inappropriate, and it got really hot. They really wanted us to wear traditional clothes so it brought up lots of discussions. I ended up calling my mom a lot because she has adapted to the American culture more so than my father and other relatives. Most of the time I wound up wearing what I wanted to! I was raised here, so I like it here a lot better!" - Jincy



I've officially made it half way, and I've met 50 different people! Thanks for all of the kind feedback and following my blog! 50 more people to meet!

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