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Published: March 1st 2007
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Our mosquito nets!
Alice and i spent about 45 minutes concocting this design! But works a treat! you just ahev to be careful where you are stepping! Helllo everybody!! this is mainly to put our piccies up, we havnt' been up to much! apart fronm visiting the amazing farmhouse and swanky posh bars and a groovy slightly boring hindi music group etc. ok so maybe we will write things now!
so i think the last time we spoke i mentioned that we were having a P.A.R.T.Y. for our austrian friend, and my work partner, Lisa! it turned out to be a pretty good night! we stayed in for most of it just drinking and talking, lisa had some origianly homemade shnapps and Jagan brought out some sort of cashew monstrosity! shots all around equaled quite a drunken groups oif interns! ooo and our punch, yum yum! Lisa dressed up in and Austrian dress and looked well cool! why don't we have a female traditional dress? or traditional dance? or anything? at least that anyone cares to remember! meeting all of these americans has also made me realise that hardly anything is a big deal in britain, we just kind of glide through life without making a major deal ot of anything! but that kind of over-excitable enthusiasm can get a bit annoying.
anyhoot, on friday Lisa and I
The sleeping quarters!
This is our little sleeping areas and behind the curtains are the diferent rooms had a pretty good afternoon teacing our first class, we just read them little red riding hood and played a few word games. we've been given the syllabus now, but it just confuses us even more because it seems at a much higher level than the grasp of english we gathered fron the squiddies. tara's day was more hectic, many bus changes and tiring travelling lead to a woman being sick on her, and she couldn't take off her shirt as her top underneath was too revealing! how annoying??? shes had a bit of bad luck with that shirt, her new bag leaked dye onto it yesterday too and that looks as though it won't come out! tara's schedule is a bit more hectic than mine, but i'll let her speak her own mind later! i'll be teaching at a school monday, tuesday and friday, a adifferet class in the morn to the afternoon, and going to the children's homes on wednesday and thursday! will keep you up to date on al things educational!
we went shopping and to pizza hut sometime, think it was wed and i may have told you, but that was fun anyway and il put
Cramped or what??
Our crazy rickshaw drive with five people in! The driver was so weird and didnt even drive straight, he was then freaking alice out talking to himself! those pics up! im going to buy some jeans from levi on tuesday, cos you have to dress up to go out at night here and they are only like 20 quid!
this weekend we went to the farmhouse and to a giant tree that spreads out for yonks and yonks! il let tara explain more about it, as all i seem to know is that it is very big! the farmhouses is amazing, its circular and set out around a tiny courtyeard thins in the middle with lush green plants everywhere! all sorts of fruits and plants are farmed there, but i think people mainly visit just to get away! we spent some time just lying on the roof looking at the clouds and it was so peaceful! we also had a go in the dingy on the lake, twas very exciting if a little difficult to manouvre!
this weekend we were right little party animals, we check out an 'english' style pub called the tavern on saturday night, but ended up cming home quite early due to the fact that everywhere cloes at 11.30 and we were knackered! last night we went out with Jagan and Maeve to
On the scooter!
Alice and i had a fun ride on the back of a scooter. It was with Lenka's friend Yogesh. It was cool but quite scary weaving in and out of traffic. Saw five people on a Scooter yesterday. NOT ADVISEABLE. some swanky expensive bar. not out style at all, we got stamped going in and yhe drinks were just as expensive as back home! rubbish thumpety thump and hip-hop seems to rule the airwaves here, but we have heard of a few grungy bars that sound more up our street so are hoping to visit them this week! last night we brought the party back home and Jagan got his guitar out. oh, the guitar! a few of us stayed up singing til 5am haha! we were sat there for 4 hours just singing! it gets quite addictive i tell thee, though we did not sound too good!
i don't know how any more crisp/chip/fries debates i can handle! I thought communication would be hard with indian people, not people who actually speak english as a first language!anyhoot tara is here now and ready to spread her words of wisdom, so here she is....
oh dear people i am so fed up today! We have been stuck inside all day due to this silly protest thing over the river and we have ben so bored! Its been horrible cos the sun is shining and its so hot inside. Alice and
Boo!
Very random. This freakishly tall gorrilla man came up to us and scared us to death! He was sweaty! Yuk i resorted to lying on the floor and quote alice "this was the best part of the day!". Think we are gunna stick on a few hindi films later on and blood diamond. Anyhoot i will tell you about my teaching. Well friday got of to a bad start. We (me steve and maisie) were meant to be teaching at a primary school at half ten on friday yet at twn thrity we were still making our way to meet phrabu in the opposite direction! Not only that we got on this really cramped bus and it was so hot. I was just amusing myself with my own thoughts when i heard this woman cough and then felt something on my arm! I looked around and she had been sick on me! Oh my it was disgusting! Im still cringing now! By this time it was too late to go back home so i took my shirt of but then my vest top was too revealing and i was getting funny looks! Then to top it of i ripped my daily bus pas and had to buy another one. Well it turned out a good day in the end. The
The lickle village across the way
this is where the nearby workers live, and the iddy biddy children who run around calling us all 'aunty'! teaching was good. There was three of us for about 70 kids which is quite alot but we just wanted to see the standard of the children. Alot of children dont know much and just copy of each other or guess what im saying. I said to one child "what is your age" his reply was "ramesh". The kids are very ciute just hard to handle sometimes especially with the communication barrier.
So i will tell you about this tree. It was a banyan tree and it was huge! Jagan took us there in his hot and bumpy jeep. Basically this tree is the biggest in india. It doesnt look like a tree though just a mass of trees! It was slightly touristy though and there were lots of wild monkeys which was wierd to see. These monkeys survived and depend of humans though and tourists giving them food which is worrying. jAGAN WAS SAYING THAT the monkeys can get violent and are very cheeky and run of with people's food. Jagan's stories do make me chuckle! He is such a good story teller with stories about wild elephants, candy stripes on temples and tree snakes (yeah you have to
be careful about which of his stories are true!) . His humour is really funny as well. Its very slapstick and constantly playing on words and telling simple but funny jokes. Anyway check out the pictures cos they may be a bit more interesting for you. Alice and i are going to get back to sitting on our floor now! toodle pip!
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Heather!
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hello alice an tara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
hi you two!! tis ur dear cousin heather here jus read all ur blogs now an looked at ur pics, i am sooo jealous but so glad ur having a good time! please find out loads of details for me cause im seriously thinkin of doing it myself next summer when i finish uni! Helens home on thursday can u believe! so gunna go out n party! also im going Leeds festival this year wi big group of people, jess is coming i think please say youll both come too yeah??!!! cant wait to hear about your next adventures! post lots of pics for me!!! missing u already! i no i dont see u that often anyway but now i miss u lots coz i cant see u even if i wanted too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx