Yo all! Thought I'd better put down what's been happening this past week and a bit! Sunday morning me and Kim got an ancient bus as part of a tour to the Ajanta caves. Some of these were over 2000 years old and are covered in ancient paintings. They're all cut into the side of a big mountain, all from one piece of rock. The paintings were amazing for how old they were - because they'd been hidden from the sun and rain they looked like they we...

Woah teaching is tiring.So I've been teaching for just over a week now. I'm pretty shattered - even though there was a three day week-end I'm still tired. I think the heat got me as well so I've been extra careful - it went over 40 degrees at the week-end.Teaching is going well though - the kids are all preparing for their graduation days (20th for the girls and 26th for the boys) so there's a huge amount to do - song learning, thinking of gam...

Hey everyone again.<> Well my little dot on the map isn't going to move much for next few weeks cos I got a job! I'm a volunteer teacher for an NGO called Akanksha (www.akansha.org or net maybe) teaching children, well basically bits of everything. On Saturday I went to their office for the volunteer meeting, watched a video and then the little group of us was told where we were volunteering and sent on our way. It was great, I didn't know you c...

Ok. Everyone. I feel great!My illness and my anxiety have totally vanished and I now have some idea of what I'll be doing in the next month!Strange thing happenned on the day after the last post, me and Kim were walking to see a Bollywood movie when we noticed some crowds in a nearby park. We wondered over were totally shocked to see the Dalai Lama given a talk to the citizens of Pune. The Dalai lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists - he led t...

Hello again everyone.Right, a lots happenned in the last week and a bit - some of it good, some of it bad and a lot that will stick with me for a long time. I went on this trip in part to find out about myself (as cheesy as that sounds) and I have been. I will also explain how I'm in Pune over 1000km from where I was last.Ok first after Jaipur where I left everyone but Anil we drove to the ruined Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra. This was an amazingly ...