Kolkata… Within a couple hours of arriving in India I had the good fortune of meeting some kind, outgoing guys who told me about the Mother Theresa House - where I decided to volunteer, “for a few days”. In any rate, I sunk comfortably into the Kolkata/Sudder Street bubble faster than I could say “Motherhouse”, and the days amicably rolled into one another, and before I knew it 2 weeks were away and gone. The mornings I spent at Prem Den, a long-term care house for those with major ailments and no one else to turn to: washing clothes, dishes, giving pedicures/manicures & massages, chatting, dancing, singing to/with women with every assortment of physical conditions imaginable. On our free day, Thursday, I visited a leprosy colony outside of Kolkata, run by the Missionaries of Charities brotherhood.
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