Training

Hi,
Sorry I am not sending many updates or messages as we currently don't have access to the Sangam computers until after the feasts and festivals event, so at the moment I am borrowing the others girls computers. This also means that I will not really be able to arrange skype times unless I see that you are online when I am online, hopefully this will change after the 15th when the event stops and we start our volunteering. Today has been more training and orientation, we have done technical training today, check out our new video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHltc2YEFXE become a facbook fan at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Sangam-World-Centre/260230482829?ref=ts and see www.sangamworldcentre.org for updates as to what I am doing. Hopefully there will soon be an article and photos of the new volunteers on the website. This afternoon we had a self guided tour around the neighbourhood, we saw kids playing cricket on the street, using bricks built up as wickets, some people drumming and dancing who were apparently practising for the upcoming Ganesh festival and many cows in the streets and goats too! They just randomly walk the streets and lie down the middle of big busy roads! We visited quite a few Hindi temples, a Sikh temple and a Mosque. At one of them we were offered Chai (Indian tea but made with boiled milk and spices, it is good) and Indian sweets. We were also given sweets from another temple, we ate some of it but we were given a whole handful, we then walked past a beggar sitting on the floor and gave it to him, he seemed very grateful, so the sweets served many purposes! I went for a swim in the pool after tea with Malin (from Sweden) and Kristen (from Canada).
We have had lots of nice food, breakfast is normally cornflakes, toast, porridge, juices, banana, papaya and an egg dish like fried egg or omelette. Lunch is Indian which is generally a curry type dish (although Indians think that curry is not Indian!), chappatis, rice, a vegetable dish (today we had cauliflowers in spices or sometimes spices potatoes) and then an Indian dessert (Indian sweets or fruit). Tea is generally International, tonight we had spag bog, last night was an Indian dish then jelly and custard for pudding!
I will sort out some photos in due course, but I am likely to be busy, we are all quite tired at the moment but having lots of fun. Tomorrow the Feasts and Festivals event starts, which should be good.
Talk soon xx