So we finally started our trek across India. We are currently in Kolkata and have been here for 3 days. So far everything is going according to plan, and we did our first day of voulenteer work today at one of mother teresa's homes, which I will get into in a moment. We took a train from Guwhatti at 10:30 pm and arrived in Kolkata around 7:30 pm the next day, so almost a full 24 hour train ride. But despite the time, it actually didn't turn out to be that bad. We went to bed almost immediately after the train started moving and didn't wake up till the next day around 9 am so we only spent a few hours actually being awake on the train. This all happened of course, after having the gruelling
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