The session begins with a conversation around how Punita Mehta always wanted to pursue a master’s programme somewhere and how she had applied to several places, but that the circumstances never allowed her to go. But in 2000, as she recalls, she had the chance to go abroad and study in Australia. She recounts the experience in detail and shares several interesting anecdotes and insights from the time. She then mentions how she got back to India soon after, helped her husband set up a rental house in Goa for his teaching position there at the time, and joined back with the university. She further notes how she got to assist Gurudev Singh while she was in Australia and how she engaged with the other students there, encouraging them to work in the studio and many other similar details. She then goes on to describe how she got into planning and pursued that field as well upon her return to MSU. This was her experience of distance learning. During this entire time as well, she remarks how she kept teaching all her peers through the planning courses, assessments and exams, and remembers the entire time very fondly. In 2004, she also went to Goa to teach one semester. She concludes with a brief discussion on how she missed practising at the firm and how the years went on with the office.