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I’m William Damazer I am currently living and working in Bangalore. I am taking a gap year before I begin my studies at Cambridge University.
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I have been a Physical Education And Fitness Leader
now for almost 2 months and am leaving this Saturday. This week is so
incredibly hectic that this is going to be my last blog. There are train
tickets (and plane tickets) to book, sooo many leaving drinks and
meals, plus i've actually managed to find myself a lot of work this
week. Apparently i've managed to do some work over the last month too
because Kieran and I were named volunteers of the month (was really
cool, we got a big cheer from the office).
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As it was our last weekend in Bangalore
(that's right the last...but that will be covered more in the next
blog) we all decided not to take a day off and make it a short weekend
to Hampi. For all we knew Hampi was just a couple of ruins and bolders
in a desert...We we're really wrong.
We arrived at Hampi at 6:30 in the morning and immediately we went to
the main temple in the Hampi Bazaar.
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The reason there is a question mark after the title of this
blog is because I wasn’t sure it was possible to be a tourist. There
aren’t any tourist sites in Bangalore.
Someone I know who went on a gap year last year actually arrived and
turned around almost instantly to head to the coast. So I tried my best
to be Kieran’s guide who although having been in the city for 3 weeks
had barely seen anything other than Brigade roads (pubs and shops) and
the office.
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Last weekend I went to Goa. Goa, the home of Goan Trance (although this
was apparently stolen off Israeli soldiers on leave after a tough
year). Goa famous for it’s carnivals before lent and it’s all night long
beach parties. Goa famous for it’s crystal white beaches. So I went and
saw none of that. I wish I had, I was there for the right time and my
bus even was going to the right place but instead we went to a cross
between Brighton and an old people’s home.
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So a lot has happened since my last
blog. I can’t even remember when that was as I have been removed from
civilization for around a week (well until last Friday). I’ve been
ill!!! Not sure if it’s Malaria or not…I’m pretty sure it isn’t, just a
normal fever, but that definitely wasn’t nice. It almost ruined my day
of basketball (I’m a big fan and it was all star weekend so was watching
quite a lot of ESPN) but I managed to recover in time.
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So the final part of the blog is about my role as an Activity Camp Co-ordinator…actually
this is a new blog, I forgot about this for a week.
I’ve really got into much more of a rhythm over the past week and am trying to throw
myself into the deep end at work by attending more programmes than just the sport.
Last weekend I went to a Funday for the kids in Cub
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The Wedding was definitely an event designed for the girls in the group…but having
been surrounded by the others for 3 weeks now I went along to the wedding as well.
Hopefully I’ll have some photos up because it’s hard to convey all the colors and
ornaments that were in the wedding centre. It was incredibly beautiful.
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On Wednesday evening the 4 of us in Bangalore
left for Kerala by coach. This journey being only 12 hours was really
easy compared to the train ride…except for the driver decided to put a
grade c Bollywood movie on in which only actors with loud high pitched
voices were cast in.
When we arrived we found that there are 2 Keralas. Not the rich and the poor
(the communist party who rule Kerala has tried their best to avoid that) but between
the ugly and the be
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Although it has been less than a week since my last blog I
feel like there are too many things to fit into this blog.
Some less important things are that I can know
eat with my fingers…almost masterly (well I don’t drop food all over
myself now).
I have had a stomach upset…but not fatal (was
bound to happen) and I have been told the story of the death of the
nightclub in Bangalore.
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Last Sunday evening was as usual my trip to 'Selomonis' house for
dinner (Selomonis is one the Keepers at the Crocodile Bank), only this
week I was not to go to his house but to a wedding.
I’m not quite sure how to do a blog…I’ve never done one before. The
only thing I’ve decided is that I won’t start it with Dear Diary. I’ll
just dive straight into it.
I left for Bangalore
on Friday and have pretty much been jet lagged ever since! India is an
inconvenient five and a half hours ahead, which puts you out of sync for
a while.
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