Well shortly after my return from the Aurangabad area I decided I did not get the Pune experience that I was looking for so Friday I once again made the 3 hour trek (trek is a little extreme, I was comfortably seated in very the back of an suv) to Pune. This time I went with a girl named Claire, her mother Jane, Renee who initiated the trip because she was getting dental work done, and girl/woman named Sarah who just came from Tanzania where she was volunteering at a hospital and working on a project to care for lepers and [View Full Entry]

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NEW ADVENTURES AWAITED! Soon after I returned from Pune it was off to the Ellora and Ajanta Caves. These are massive collections of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain temples carved right out of the sides of mountains! First we went to Ajanta which has only Buddhist monasteries and temples. These were all carved on the face of one of the cliffs surrounding a beautiful horse shoe ravine. Some dated before christ but often times they were in the AD. It was so incredible, many of the ruins still had the wall paintings thanks to a rule that prohibits flash photography. But also [View Full Entry]

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Today was a day of outdoor gaming! After my last post I went back to the Pilgrim Retreat and played volley ball for about 3 hours after lunch. I am absolutely terrible but people tend to let me play anyway which I appreciate. After 2 cups of chai at tea time (LOTS OF SUGAR) I went to the pumpkin house. There we had all sorts of games. First we played red light green light, which didn't work that great because the yard was small and kids left the light green a long time so everyone pretty much dashed all the way [View Full Entry]

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Wow, so a lot has happened since my last post. On Wednesday I had my first class with the kids at the Pumpkin house. We drew a picture of a Christmas scene using triangles, circles, squares and rectangles. We even went as far as to draw boot shaped stockings. The kids were really cute and pretty smart. Especially the older kids did a great job and were so eager to please that they would hold up their sheets of paper every time they finished their particular shape. One boy in particular was the most bold and he would proudly hold up [View Full Entry]

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Well today I woke up extremely late 9:00 compared to my usual 5:45 am, and that was even with my normal bed time of 9:00 pm. Hahaha all those fights about curfew and here I am in bed before 10 like an old lady. Well since I did not wake up in time I was not able to see the people who had had eye surgery the day before but Caran, a lady who works at the hospital let me know that 5 people said that they still could not see which was very sad but atleast it went well for [View Full Entry]

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Sorry, last one wouldnt let me gobackand add pictures so here they are. [View Full Entry]

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OK I was going to post pictures...then the power went out. That is India for you. Lets try again shall we? [View Full Entry]

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OK I am just going to load everything from my camera. Sorry if it is already up [View Full Entry]

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HAHA! I got travel blog to add Meherabad to their lists of locations. Sorry that my entrys are so infrequent but I come the internet cafe everyday but electricity in India is a bit of a variable. It still isnt very hot here and I havent been able to go to the orphanage yet, I will probably start mid this coming week. Today I am working at the hospital helping iwht a free eye surgery clinic. Things are hectic and kinda sad because som people had to go home even after coming all this way. However it has been a really [View Full Entry]

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Wow so here I am...in India. I am technically writing this at about 3 in the morning here on June 18th, three days after I bgan th journey to get here. I was suppose to leave Atlanta at 7:30 am on the 15th but my flight was cancelled and i was moced to the 3:30 pm flight to Newwark New Jearsey. I thought it was strange that I was switching planes in New Jersey. Who on earth was going to New Jearsey. All I know about New Jersey is that lots of stand up comedians like to make jokes that go [View Full Entry]

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