"Take Some Rest"

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One lunch time conversation with Sagar, early on during our stay at Hebron, was around some of the differences within European cultures. Spanish siestas really tickled him and we assumed the notion of shutting down for afternoon naps was so hilarious because it must have been such an alien a concept to a man who never seemed to stop working. After a further ten minutes of descriptions and belly laughter, Sagar then stood and said, "please, take some rest". Not a joke but a delicious irony that the Indian's also enjoyed a daily siesta style break... though clearly their's was different!

Sagar wasn't the only person partial to a cat nap. During the fantastic two weeks or so that we spent with my parents I learnt lots of new things about them, how my mother, "Sujie", is a great public speaker and how the old man, Pops, actually has the patience of a saint and a natural chaplin/esque comedy routine that regularly had the kids in fits of giggles. He also had a tendency to drop off when and where ever he decided he felt like it. So for the alternative record of our travels here is my Pop's Top Five 40 Winks

1. Leaning out of a train window to take photos. Three of us witnessed him fall asleep, laughed disbeliving before turning back and see him awake again and snapping away. If I were being kind I would also say that we'd started the day at 4am to take the train from Kalka to Simla and they had been roughing it in a room shared with cockroaches. But the journey was a steep and stuttering climb, with over 100 tunnels and with a freezing headlong wind. How is it possible?

2. Flying in to Chennai, our landing was a very bumpy five mins. 30 seconds before the point of touch down he was chatting away. As we landed, he was away with the fairies

3. Sports Day at the Home and the climax of the cricket was a highly tense final between the Hebron Superstars vs the non Hebron College students. I wasn't a witness to this but have it on very good authority that a certain dignitary spent the afternoon stirring from his intermittent dozing to shout and cheer loudly before dropping off for another over

4. The first two hours of our trip to Agra was spent fighting the crazy Delhi traffic. Horns blared constantly, people shouted continuously and the car lurched unrelentingly in its stop/starting. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

5. After an afternoon of 'intensive wandering and photography' in Ned Chek's wonderful but utterly bonkers garden of statues made from junk, we broke for tea/chai in a nearby hotel. Someone didn't need to drink, but just quickly kip in front of their cuppa to benefit from its refreshing qualities

It is a formidable skill that we enviously discussed during our 30hours of travelling across ten time zones from India to Panama. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be hereditary!

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[Pops Pattison]

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I found this blog so good that when I woke up after the top two I only read four and five! Must go back to thgree and catch up! Bless you bothzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz