On Tuesday Morning we all surfaced at a reasonable hour as we had arranged to go back to the market to go shopping again - apparently it wasn’t new market which explains why it didn’t look very new. With a little bit or organisation on my part we provided John with a shopping list of all the things that a mixed group of 11 students and staff from England might want to take home. These ranged from Salwar Kameez (these are a more fitted version of the men’s...

Monday was a full school day without the distractions of national holidays or visits out for our students. Over the previous week we had started to work on the projects but with the presentation to the director and governors on friday Dan and I were beginning to try and instil a sense of urgency into our students, that each group needed to produce, not just a display board, but a drama, a song and a poem. Everything needed to be learned by the students and sch...

On Saturday evening Anup, Dan and I had sat about his dreams for the Mathieson Music school until quite late. His hope to raise the money to secure the land sooner rather than later, how the news of the school is broadcast to the wider world to give more people an opportunity to support it’s future and realise the dream. I think it is safe to say that I would very much like to be a part of this future as being here is like a little piece of heaven - a safe ha...

Saturday afternoon was a nice chilled out afternoon. The school boys took some of our students beyond the kitchen to a patch of scrubland on the edge of the paddy field to play cricket. There was something hugely iconic about this scene with the teachers, the boys, some of the builders who are working on the next stage of th school and obviously our students - it reminded me no end of the scene from ‘The best exotic marigold hotel’. As I am not into cricket...

There was a fair degree of excitement amongst the girls when we got up on saturday morning because the programme (which is always subject to be change and other than lesson times we strayed quite a long way from the original plan) had been changed again - for our benefit the planned market visit day had been brought forward so we were going sari shopping. We were armed with instructions from the girls in the school that we needed to buy saris with extra fabric f...