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Hi,I'm Zara. I am 27 and am the general manager of a country house hotel.I decided to take a career break to achieve a sense of freedom and to make a difference in the world.LovePrincess Zara
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I have had such a busy week!!! Firstly I found my mother ship!!! The
shop MANGO!!! We were so excited, new tops were purchased for this
weekend celebrations and incase you had forgotten it's my birthday
coming!!! I will be the grand old age of 27! I know I look good apart
from the wrinkles around the eyes!!!
My friend Divya and I had fun getting home the other day as the Auto
ran out of fuel on a dual carriage way!!! The fun of traveling in
India!!! I may take to writing just about the autos as they drive me
mad.
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I had the best day. I went on a day trip to Nandi Hills which is around
2 hours from the city. We went with an NGO which has children boarding
with them from Monday to Friday which are from the streets/slums; it is a
mixed school boys and girls age ranging from 4-16 years. So as you can
imagine the day was going to be eventful with 52 children and 15
adults!!! I got to work to find the office (9 other people) screeching
"Happy Birthday" to me at the top of their voices, which was great.
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Saturday was a stressful day at work as it was panic stations the day
before the sports day! I of course got my bossy hat on and everything
was ready on time but as you can imagine I always have to check if
people are working to English time or Indian!!! In India 10 could mean
10:15, 10:30 or even 10:45!!! So I booked an auto van for 1pm and asked
for it to be in English time, well that was a big mistake, it finally
arrived at 1:40, we loaded it up to take the stuff to the sports ground
where the event was taking place so that took us till 2:00pm the drivers
then went for lunch as they did a whole 20mins work so it finally left
at 3:00pm!!! That's Indian time.
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Well I have got back to Bangalore safe and sound!
Saturday was a very early start at work, we then went to pick up other
volunteers and we were off on a little outing for the day! We visited a
BOSCO centre around 100kms from the city. This centre houses 150 boys
aged between 7-18 years old. The majority of these boys have been
addicted to some kind of drugs. So they use this centre in the middle of
nowhere to re-educate the boys through rehab and education.
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