This is just a quick entry to say this is my last day in India. I leave for Bangkok tomorrow at 5.30am, I can’t believe how quickly the past 12 weeks have gone. I am currently in Mumbai which is a great city. It feels much more like the capital, as there are huge commerical centres, shopping malls and amazing bazars. We are staying in a hostel in Colaba which is a great location and there are lots of backpackers here. The weather is about 38 degrees so very...

What a week! I have been going non-stop, trying to finish off my teaching, saying farewell to all the boys and making the most of my last days in Dehradun. It has sadly come to an end, and yesterday marked my departure from northern India; a departure which came far too soon. It was very sad to leave behind all the boys and Isaac’s family, whom we have all become very close to. We have lived with them like a family and spent everyday together for the past ...

I have been so busy I have not had time to keep as up-to-date on the blog as I would have liked to. I’ll rewind to last week first: I had to spend the week wearing glasses which many of you know I hate! I managed to lose one of my contact lenses in my eye and when it came out it had snapped so I had to go to the opticians to check it wasn’t in my eye. Thankfully it wasn’t but I had scratched my eye looking for it so was banned from contacts for...

This week has been fascinating. I have got to know the boys (I call them boys but they are really young men) so well and I learn as much from them as they do from me. I have taken the lead in teaching them English grammar from some exercise books we found in the house. So far I, along with Amy and Craig have taught them the past and present tense and orders and requests. My immaculately prepared German lessons from school have stayed with me and I’m using a...

I am now in Dehra Dun and absolutely love it. The project is fantastic and the view stunning. I have only been here two full days as last week we were sent to Rishikesh to work on a herbal medicine farm. We were given a wonderful send-off from our project partners in Dehli. We all dressed up in clothes we had bought in India (mine were limited due to being stuck inside for two weeks and missing shopping trips!). Many people who were sponsors of our organisation w...