Hey

Just thought i would send u another brief update! I am being a bit en-retard and cant work out how to write a message on the board so ill just say it all here! Thanks 4 all the messages they are wicked and had me chuckling away, its really nice to know what people are doing at home cos i miss u all loads and am going through a bit of homesick stage where the craziness is all a bit to crazy and the heat is a bit to hot and u wanna be able to brush ur teeth using a tap not a bottle of water and use toilet paper from the loo not bring ur own! Away that sounds like im moaning it really is a very diverse country and sooo different which is what makes it amazing and challenging at the same time. We are getting used to everyone staring at us all the time and roughing it big style!

We are in Pondicherry at the mo which is an old french colonial town and a hippie retreat there are a lot of hippies and au-naturals, we stayed in a ashram which is kinda like a buddist religious thing and had a curfew of 10.30 pm so we had to run back after our dinner. It was only a pound a night tho! We are getting a train overnight tonight to a place called Madurai which has these amazing temples and then going to a place called Kodikanal which is a hill station where people from the cities go o escape so should be beautiful. Then going south to tanyas uncles who is head of the small airport there and i may be able to drive a car down the runway which will be class, then we are going to the backwaters of kerela and then im not sure. Its very hectic and tiring but interesting, no lazing around as of yet to speak of.

Oh also random stuff keeps happening like we flooded tanyas grans whole flat by not putting the pipe that drains the water down the loo, technical when there is no running water all at 6 in the morn! Funny now not then also 3 girls and backpacks in a rickshaw is a defo challenge! It has been a rollarcoaster of emotions sure there will be loads more to come.

Anyway i better go cos running out of time.

Speak u all soon n thanks 4 the lovely messages!

Miss u all and love u loads!

love Rach xxxx