hi how is everyone. ive come to Madurai this weekend to buy a camera. Im on my own for the first time in India, and the city is so different to my little villages im use to. i just got charged 3 times the normal price for bananas grrr!! on monday this week, we got invited to a friends house. this day was probably one of the funniest ever! the chain of events were just so bizarre, you had to be there but to give you an idea... when we arrived at the house, his mo...

i cant put any photos on so im just using all the free ones they give me online - thats agra fort by the taj mahal! so this week doesnt seem as eventful for me, but i think its because ive settled into my new home so fast. im half way through my first project and i cant believe how fast its going. i had my first teaching spoken english class on monday. me and Leta the other volunteer, had the class of crazy 10 yr olds. we had them shouting out what they already ...

hi everyone, im in India now!!! I arrived safely last friday and was met at the airport by someone from my projects organisation. they dropped me off at my placement which is an Ashram - childrens orphanage. its in a village at the foothills of the western gnat mountains. so its beautiful scenery! there way of living here is so different to anything i have experienced its brilliant. just to describe my day to day activities- in the morning now that the children...

Hey sorry its taken so long to update, it has been pretty hectic. ok i think the last time i wrote in here was after the tubing in Loas?!? if it wasnt and i repeat myself sorry... so rushing from vang vieng we jumped on a bus and visited a place which is the most dangerous area in laos for land mines. there was the plain of jars there which was really strange. stone jars dotted about the hillside dating back 1000s of yrs. the journey from there to the very sout...

aww i cant put photos on my webpage, ive got so many to put on from, phi phi, rock climbing, bangkok lady boys show, tubbing in laos etc etc... will keep trying, the computers are saying jons camera has a virus so wont let me upload as for my camera its broke!! sand in the lens or something sent it home with my parents! so we r living off of jons camera. Well in Laos now (country north of Thailand) we caught a night train up which turned out to be a night ...