I got my packages from George and Ami, they made my week! The chai appretiation society devoured the vieniese biccys in about 10 seconds. I'm keeping all the percy pigs.
This week has been really really good, daycare is looking amazing after only 4 days of us painting. I've got a big number grid painted, a human body (even though Becky laughed at her extra long legs), fruit, footprints, handprints, it's so colourful now! Roxy, Olive and I are making good use of our day off next week to go in anyway and make sure it's finished before we leave. Yashoda (our exec) has already left to sit her exams in Jaipur, which was such a hard goodbye, but only a fraction of what next week is going to be like when we all say goodbye at Heathrow. Not looking forward to that one little bit.
Some lovely things have been happening this week. An evening stroll with Sharma Ji, Kylie and Emma gave me my first look at how the village manage to get electricity. Darbari is situated not 20km from the most enourmous power station i've ever seen, and surrounded by countless wind turbines, but the village itself has no power supply. So when we see the houses lit up, we asked Mr. Sharma how they manage. "No legal ways." He tells us. Turns out they stand under the power lines and throw cables up around the wires, tack the electricity down to thier houses, and sap it from the cables. Dangerous, but clever.
Kylie works at Akal boys school, with Joujou and some others, and about 3 months ago one of the boys in thier class was treated for kidney stones at a local hospital. Recently though he's been very ill again and without any healthcare available in the village, he's been very sick. His family probably do not have the means to pay for him to be treated, after no doubt shelling out huge amounts of money for the first treatment, so today, Kylie and Joujou have gone to pick him up and take him to the private hospital the volnteers have been using to get him checked over and cover the costs of the treatment. I'm so proud of them. I really hope it works out ok, i'll get the story no doubt over dinner but for now i'm praying that they have enough. Our money stretches alot further over here, i'm glad it's doing some good.
I'm 19 on Monday. My first birthday without Ami, away from home. Exciting stuff.
Some little updates -
- I still haven't climbed the wind turbine, and I still have no intention to.
- I have been on the back of Ziad's motorbike :)
- My suitcase is only 2kg overweight, so far, so good.
- I'm down to my last 1275 Rs with 500 on the way next friday and no way of extracting it from my bank account (which is probably a blessing in disguise)
- Joshi has clearly forgotten about my chips - which as soon as i'm done blogging, i will be following up.
This week is going to an interesting one, torn between not wanting to leave, and desperately missing home.
"48 best friends. Changing worlds one person at a time."
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