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...

I think I jinxed my health by writing that last blog as the following morning I got ill again. I couldn’t believe it. So another visit to the hospital, another two days off school in bed and another four lots of antibiotics. I am better now (well, better in Indian terms which is feeling sick but I can do things) and I got to school for my last day on Friday. I can’t believe it has come to the end of our time here in Delhi and the project. Six weeks ha...

Well…after my latest blog entry when I mentioned I had just got Delhi belly, I got rapidly worse. That was Sunday 4th February and today is Tuesday 20th and I am only just getting over it. I have basically had to write off two weeks and spend it in bed as I was really quite ill. On that Sunday night I had to sleep in the room with the ensuite as I went to the loo 15 times in those 24 hours. I had excruciating abdominal pain, a headache, felt sick and somet...

With the weekend trip over, we started our work back at school. It has been an up-and-down week but I have come out on top and sometimes, going through low points makes you appreciate the high points even more and puts things in perspective. We had to work really hard at school for a big fair at the British High Commissioner’s residence on Saturday. Our main job was to sell the artwork donated from the artists that volunteered at the school and make a displ...