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By nandan on October 24, 2008
A 55 years old guy from Auckland wrote me through couchsurfing about 3 months ago. He wanted to know about Varanasi. He said that he wanted someone to travel with him. Once he asked me if I would like to be his tour guide for all of India. I was so excited about this, and [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Medical services in Varanasi | Tagged family stay varanasi, guest house varanasi, home stay varanasi, hostels varanasi
By nandan on October 22, 2008
One girl name Abbie from Pittsburgh contacted me through couchsurfing asking about Hindi classes in Varanasi. I suggested her to go to Mr. Virendra Singh. She had written to Bhasha Bharti, but Bhasha Bharti did not reply her. I asked Mr. Singh if he had time for another student, and fortunately he had one hour [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged Hindi classes varanasi, hindi lessons varanasi, hindi teacher varanasi
By nandan on October 20, 2008
I have been hosting a student from Germany. His name is Udo, he is 58 years old and wants to learn Hindi in Varanasi. Uncle Udo contacted me about a month ago. He got my email address through hospitality club profile. Uncle Udo used to be a professor of German. He has worked for different [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged Hindi classes varanasi, hindi lessons varanasi, hindi teacher varanasi
By nandan on July 15, 2008
An anthropology student named Adam Sergant from University of Chicago came to my guest house for a month. He also wanted to learn Hindi with Bhasha Bharti like Lane and Dave. Adam wanted to learn Hindi with Bhasha Bharti for his whole stay, three months, but Bhasha Bharti didn’t have that much time so he [...]
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By nandan on April 4, 2008
I had a tenant in my home from USA. His name was Dave. He was a Biologist. He lives in Fresno, California. There was a conference going on in BHU about world environment and my tenant was also invited there to give a speech. It was his speech at 3′o clock at BHU on 28/03/2008. [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged Conference at BHU, Varanasi, World environment
By nandan on March 27, 2008
There was a conference in Mehndiganj about water rights from 28th to 30th March, 2008. I was invited by Nandlal to attend the conference. I was so excited when I heard that Sandeep Pandey and Medha Patekar were also going to give speech. Then Nandlal told me that there was a girl from the U.S. [...]
Posted in Business, Coca-Cola, Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged coke issue india, mehndiganj
By nandan on March 15, 2008
A 61 years old scientist named Dave from Fresno, USA came to my guest house for a month. He wanted to learn Hindi with Bhasha Bharti. He was in love with Hindi. He had spent about 3 years in Madhya Pradesh, India working for US Peace Corps in 1960s. He knew very good Hindi, a [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged guest house varanasi, hindi classes in varanasi
By nandan on February 25, 2008
I hosted a tenant from Montreal for one month in my guest house. His name is Will Eizlini but my family gave him a Indian name- Willu. His friend Bijay had contacted me through some Lonely Planet Forum posting where somebody had recommended my name. I still don’t know who did that but I was [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged guest house varanasi, music school varanasi, sitar classes varanasi, tabla classes varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on January 20, 2008
One American Marine retired officer came to my guest house for one week. He had contacted me through craigslist before 3 months of coming to Varanasi. He was writing a novel and wanted to stay in India for one year. This time he just wanted to visit and see the place where he could stay [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged guest house varanasi, tour guide varanasi
By nandan on December 30, 2007
I worked with two American girls, Maria and Olena, as their tour guide in Benares. They contacted me through my apartment add on craigslist. It was the first time when I was asked to arrange a tour of Benares. It was very exciting for me because I always wanted to work in tourism sector. Maria [...]
Posted in Business, Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged family stay varanasi, guest house varanasi, home stay varanasi, tour guide varanasi, tour varanasi, Varanasi