Abstract
The First Student Trip
During the next 18 months, the plan for a Creighton FLPA to Northeast India emerged with the appropriate paperwork completed, university/province approvals secured, support on both sides of the world joyously given, and itineraries designed. Both undergraduate education majors and teachers taking graduate courses for an ESL endorsement embarked on the first FLPA with Dr. Ishii-Jordan and Fr. Richard Hauser. The students learned about the cultures; met with religious, educational, and political leaders of the region; interviewed tribal elders; learned to live simply with no running hot water; engaged in discussions over course readings that spanned education, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology; demonstrated new teaching strategies; conversed with young men of the region studying to be Jesuits; learned the importance of singing; attended a funeral; and attended a First Communion celebration. The students were deeply moved as they wrote reflections of their service and their experiences connected to the Ignatian charisms of the Education Department: cura personalis, magis, contemplation in action , and men/women for and with others.