Once again, so much has happened since I last updated this blog. From poetry competitions, five star hotels, hostals and finaly a Hindi wedding, this has certainly been an action packed week!! A week ago last Friday, we decided to take a little break from the usual weekend activities of going into town and then relaxing, and went to Kerala, to a tourist resort called Kovalum to visit one of the other volunteers, who had left the trust a few weeks ago and has inv...

Well, I can't believe it's been nearly a week since I arrived at the Trust....Time seems to be flying as each day brings another exciting new challenge! The trust is amazing. The daily routine is, pretty hectic and involves getting woken up by the church singing/shouting dear Jehovah's work to anyone who cares about it at this un-earthly hour. Fortunately I seem to have become more used to this rude interruption and tend to get up at 08.30 for breakfast before t...

Well...I made it!! After a rather entertaining trip from Jodhpur to Mumbai where I nearly walked straight into a Bollywood film star; I flew down to Trivandrum, where I arrived at the Kings World trust early last week. There are 14 other volunteers, ranging from my age to early retirement! Anyway, everyone's really nice and it is great to be with people my age for once!! The trust is basically divided into the small orphanage (where I am staying) and the Kings ...

Ok, so this is more of a retrospective up-date as I am now in my final Rajasthani stop in Jodhpur but since I only got here a few hours ago there isn't much to say about here, so I just thought I'd bore you all with my latest episode of the on-going excitement that this past week has turned out to be!!! Firstly, Rajasthan is massive...it was about 300kin from Jaipur to Bikaneer and then about the same from Bikaneer to jaisalmer, and 350km to day from Jaisalmer to...

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