My name is Kirsten, and I’m a 22 years old girl from Denmark. I’m currently studying Peace and Conflict Studies in Pondicherry, India, as part of my bachelor’s in anthropology. When you study anthropology, you learn about different cultures, and how they shape the ways in which people experience and act on the world. After reading about exotic cultures in old, dusty textbooks at Aarhus University for nearly two and a half years, I was eager to travel the world and experience this great cultural diversity myself. Going to India with Kulturstudier made it possible for me to realize this while studying a subject, which I find extremely interesting and important. India is indeed a place of great cultural variation and very different from my home country. It’s also a very relevant site for Peace and Culture Studies with its history of colonialization and many contemporary conflicts and issues, but also a very strong tradition of peace work and peaceful movements with Gandhi as the most central figure. So, as you can image, I’m very thrilled to be here and I hope this will be a very instructive, insightful, and of course fun semester!