After a hearty breakfast of curry, some very sleepy school children and Strode Students gathered for Assembly. (Although I did hear the Jack, Joe and George got up at 5.30am to join the children for physical exercise - somehow I’m not sure this is something they would do at home). Assembly was like a blast from the past with a hymn, the old language Lords Prayer a reading from the bible followed by a reflection and prayers for the day. Somehow it felt right i...

After a rest and some Indian snacks and curry we joined the entire school for a belated Diwali Celebration. We each had sparklers and candles and rockets were set off and sky lanterns sent up. This was incredibly well managed and fun, the children and our students had a great opportunity to get begin to get to know each other, lots of laughter and cheering and applauding, but a very very late night after an incredibly long couple of days travelling. The photo ...

Our arrival at Kolkata airport was a much less stressful affair. All our luggage (except the two missing pieces) arrived with us fairly on time around 9am in Kolkata airport. It took us a while to report the missing luggage but seemingly they are close behind us and will be delivered soon. With some wobbly airport trolleys we made our way out of the airport ready to be collected to go to the school. A short while of waiting due to the fact that the people m...

I really didn’t expect to be updating the blog quite so soon after we left Heathrow but our experience at Mumbai airport felt rather more like a chase scene from a well written thriller than a connecting flight. Due to both bad weather and some problem at Mumbai airport we knew that we were not allowed to land there before 4am which did reduce our ample transfer time from 3+hours to 1 & 1/2 hours but we were confident that this could be done. As we left t...