I have so much to fill you all in on - I'll try and be relatively brief
though! The weekend before last I went on a weekend trip to a hill
station called Mussoorie, with two other volunteers, Habibah and Reetu,
who are absolutely lovely, but are both going back to the UK this week.I
miss them already! Mussoorie was a beautiful place, with amazing views
of the Himalayas. Our driver was a bit of a weirdo, and would hardly
speak to us!
The first day in Mussoorie it poured with rain, and was freezing cold, which was so nice. After 4 weeks of being very hot in
Delhi
I was really pleased to be wet and cold (I made good use of your
kag-in-a-bag Amy!). We managed to fit in lots of sightseeing over the
weekend, and of course shopping! I had a great weekend - if any of you
are ever in
Delhi I'd really recommend an excursion to a hill station.
Last week at the centre for autism was really busy, as we were
preparing for the inauguration ceremony of the National Centre for
Autism (where I'm based) The actual ceremony took place on Friday 8th.
The chief guest was Sonia Gandhi, the Congress President, and I was part
of the group of people who lined up to welcome her into the ceremony,
so I felt very important!
After the ceremony the teachers from the school held a 'jam session'
outside, which involved lots of dancing! We took turns in leading the
dancing.the teachers were all doing really beautiful Indian dances
moves, which I couldn't equal, so I decided to do some 'Saturday Night
Fever' moves, which went down pretty well (I think!).
I spent last weekend in
Delhi.shopping
mainly on Saturday, and then going to Rocky's (the father of the family
I'm living with) 50th Birthday party in the evening. On Sunday I went
to a beauty parlour with three of the other volunteers for a bit of
pampering! It was amazing.I had an Indian head massage, pedicure,
manicure, facial, and hair-wash for 700 rupees (about 8 pounds!). It
felt very extravagant, but was lovely! This weekend we're planning to
visit a national park which should be fun - I'm hoping to ride an
elephant!