Hi everyone!!! How are you all going? Well, I am going quite well, and am very excited to have finally landed at an internet cafe. Though I don't have very long - the site just took 20 minutes to open. And they say India is advancing so rapidly in the IT industry! We'll start with the bad news first - I just checked my phone bill, and am lucky that I didn't fall of my seat and break my back in shock when I saw it. So I am going to turn my phone off ...

Hi Everyone! Well today is Friday already, and another week has passed. Your on holidays today Mum! Make the most of it! We have had a fairly lazy week - on Wednesday night we went and stayed with a family who are Fr Thomas' cousins. Lizzie and Saban are the Mum and Dad and the boy, Nithin, is 19 and the girl, Neethu, is 16. Everyone here is so pushy and in your face! Within minutes, I was Neethu's best friend and sister. I had never even met her before...

Hi everyone! Well sorry yesterday was so short, the internet cafe shop shut and we had to go straight away. So I will carry on from yesterdays entry. After the fantastic South Indian Classical Dance, we had a very average dinner, and then headed home. I chatted to Claire for a couple of hours about various things - our Indian experiences, nursing in Aus, and other things. After a couple of hours sleep, we woke up again to face another day. On Friday, I went to...

Hi all! How are you going? Well, today is my first full day in Kerala, Fr Thomas came and picked me up from the airport yesterday, with his brother and a friend. But I'm getting to that! I haven't written in for a few days because I've been so busy, and I don't have much time now either, so a quick overview will have to do! The husband and wife who live on the boat came back to the hostel. She didn't get her hip replacement done last week b...