“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road and, if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

It was almost a year ago to the date, on the 8th of January, that I left for Kolkata, India. I was going for five months as part of my intermediate year out of Seminary, yet if I were to be brutally…