The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

Voters from around Bethesda came to Whitman to vote today. Posters endorsing presidential candidates and members of the Board of Education surrounded the voting location. Photo by Eyal Hanfling.

Photo of the Day: November 6

By Eyal Hanfling November 6, 2012
Voters from around Bethesda came to Whitman to vote today. Posters endorsing presidential candidates and members of the Board of Education surrounded the voting location.
Bollyblog: Celebrating Passover in India

Bollyblog: Celebrating Passover in India

By Eyal Hanfling April 14, 2012

This week, my host family almost threw out my matzah because they thought it was stale roti, a type of Indian bread. They're not the only ones who don't know about Passover, the Jewish festival that...

Bollyblog: Where real chai tea comes from

Bollyblog: Where real chai tea comes from

By Eyal Hanfling March 20, 2012

As I walked into my freezing physics classroom, I questioned why I chose to live in India for seven months over the central heating at Whitman. But when I got home from school and started my homework...

Photo courtesy Eyal Hanfling.

Bollyblog: Living on a village farmhouse

By Eyal Hanfling February 22, 2012

Every day, the vegetables I eat at lunch and dinner come from the small farm in my host family’s backyard, and the milk I drink comes each morning on a bicycle from a buffalo in a nearby village. I’m...

Bollyblog: Becoming a Delhiite

Bollyblog: Becoming a “Delhiite”

By Eyal Hanfling January 8, 2012

The first time I bargained for a jar of peanut butter at the market across the street from my house, I realized I had fully embraced some “Delhiite” qualities. Half a year after arriving in India,...

The bride and groom enjoy the exchanging of garlands ceremony, part of a typical 48-hour Indian wedding. Photo courtesy Eyal Hanfling.

Bollyblog: ‘My Big Fat Indian Wedding’

By Eyal Hanfling December 5, 2011
Throughout the wedding, I witnessed grand displays of happiness, music, dancing and enjoyment, but at the same time, I saw great sadness and emotion.
Bollyblog: Celebrating Dusherra, a Hindu holiday

Bollyblog: Celebrating ‘Dusherra,’ a Hindu holiday

By Eyal Hanfling October 15, 2011

Last week, I leaned out of a train travelling across the Indian countryside, danced with hundreds of people at a “Garba” festival and watched the destruction of giant statues of Hindu gods with explosives...

Blogger Eyal Hanfling meets some younger classmates during break time at school. Students must wear uniforms at all times and obey strict rules on short hair length. Photo courtesy Eyal Hanfling.

Bollyblog: Freedom from a different perspective

By Eyal Hanfling September 21, 2011

This year, MCPS allows students to use their phones during lunch. At my new school in India, students are forbidden from even bringing their phones onto campus and face searches, pat-downs and confiscation...

Blogger Eyal Hanfling, center, waits for the school bus every morning with his host siblings and host cousins. He is in India on a study abroad scholarship to learn Hindi. Photo courtesy Eyal Hanfling.

Bollyblog: An introduction to school abroad in India

By Eyal Hanfling September 13, 2011
I've now lived in New Delhi, India, for two months with a host family, and while I'm here, I'm attending a traditional Indian school and participating in a cultural exchange program.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils a new line of products June 6, including the highly-anticipated iCloud. Photo courtesy www.nytimes.com.

Tech: Steve Jobs unveils iCloud, Mac OSX Lion and iOS5

By Eyal Hanfling June 7, 2011

Apple announced a line of new products Monday at its annual World Wide Developers Conference that, for many, will change the way information is shared on the computer. CEO Steve Jobs made an appearance...

Students wait in the hot, cramped elevator while firefighters work to repair it. Too many students loaded the elevator while leaving prom, causing it to freeze. Photo courtesy Lauren Hill.

Students overload elevator at prom, stuck for half an hour

By Eyal Hanfling May 30, 2011
A simple elevator trip took a turn for the worse May 27 when 22 juniors and seniors overloaded in an elevator at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda while leaving prom.
Graffiti covers the wall of Pyle Middle School. Police are currently investigating the incident. Photo by Eyal Hanfling.

Police investigating graffiti incident at Pyle

By Eyal Hanfling May 14, 2011

Montgomery County Police and MCPS security are currently investigating graffiti discovered May 14 at Pyle Middle School on the wall by the tennis courts. The wall was defaced sometime between Friday...

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