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Experience In India

Posted By Katrina Pluss on 23 Apr 2008

Firstly, School! It has been quite hectic recently, the kids have been studying for there end of year exams, we have been conducting reading assessments within 2 schools and we have helped with a creative writing competition. The reading assessments were good and gave us a lot of contact time with the children so we got to no them more as an individual rather than just a child from a certain class.

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A Month Gone

Posted By Katrina Pluss on 05 Mar 2008

So a month has nearly gone and I am still having a fantastic time. I have had many more experiences of Bangalore and India in General. I still love the teaching and the kids are still absolutely fantastic. The last few weeks we have been given more responsibility with the kids. We are currently running English assessments for the whole school. At the moment we are completing Jayanagar and they we will be going onto the other 3 schools around the city to do the same assessments.

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My First Week in Bangalore

Posted By Katrina Pluss on 04 Feb 2008

Ok, so i have been in Bangalore for over a week now and i have already experienced a large slice of Indian culture. I absolutely love this country, it is so completely different from England- it is impossible to explain how unless you can experience it for yourself! My home stay is lovely and she has made me feel very settled very quickly. She cooks lovely food and plenty of it! Her apartment is lovely, plenty of space and I am looking forward to the other gaper who will be joining me very shortly.

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The Final Countdown

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 07 Oct 2007

No less than a week until I depart for India! Now all my inoculations are complete, I can pursue crossing off the final things on my packing list. I am beginning to feel more excited, however I am still apprehensive of what to expect! Constant reminders from the Nurse, friends and family ‘not to drink the water’ & to ‘k

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The big day goodbye England Namaste India

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 06 Oct 2007

So, the big day came and it was time for me to say my goodbyes and depart. I remember feeling both excited but equally nervous. After checking my back-pack about ten times I made my way to the airport for my long journey to India. Arriving at Heathrow was an experience in itself. I have never flown a long-haul flight before, so I was just wondering how I would feel being stuck on a plane for ten hours, waiting for the unknown.

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Arriving in India

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 05 Oct 2007

Stepping off the plane into my new home, to a land which had caught my attention for many years, I was finally here in Incredible India. I think that is the only suitable word to describe this country. After making my way through immigration, I was swamped with many air-port staff offering to carry my luggage. The airport was basic, just like a hall with a few men in uniform and old looking computers.

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Bustling Bangalore first impressions

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 04 Oct 2007

One month in and I am thoroughly enjoying my time in Bangalore, it feels like home from home! Bangalore is notorious for its Western-like style; it does indeed have many good food joints, trendy coffee bars and lush gardens, however the shock that is India still shines through each and everyday. Early morning I negotiate obstacles of sleeping peopl

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Mysore Weekend

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 03 Oct 2007

On my second weekend in India we took a trip to Mysore, courtesy of GapGuru. The weekend consisted of both practical training and visiting various attractions. We first stopped off in a small rural village. It was nice to get away from the city scene in Bangalore and to come to a small, quiet peaceful place, whereby the locals were most pleasant and the children were delighted we came to visit them.

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Diwali Greetings

Posted By Nathan Chilcott on 02 Oct 2007

This week is the start of Diwali. The Hindu festival of lights, as the bell sounded for the Diwali holiday at school, the children went wild, with balloons and sweets wishing everyone a ‘Happy Deepawali.’ On the eve of Diwali I went to my first true Indian party with my home-stay. In my Kurta I felt the part. The atmosphere of the party was amazing; with so many people to talk to, music, dance, authentic food and drink, gambling and various pujas, it gave me a taste of how hospitable and warming people are here and how they really ‘go to town’ for festivals.

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Family Life

Posted By Nina Grayson on 04 Jun 2007

The thing I was most nervous about on the plane here was meeting my host family. I wanted to fit in to their family life whilst also representing myself as someone from a different culture well. When I arrived, Vijaya was on the drive talking to a young man. I shook her hand and introduced myself, then Rodger and Jack, the boys I'm living with, came out and started trying to move my very heavy case. I then saw Catrin, who I'd been emailing for a few weeks, so it was nice to see someone who was slightly familiar even though I'd not met her before! The other gappers and I sat on the seats in the hall with Vijaya.

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Journey

Posted By Nina Grayson on 03 Jun 2007

I'm now hoping to go away as many weekends as possible so I can see lots of different parts of India. I think it's hard for someone from a country as small as England to understand how much diversity somewhere like India has until you actually go there and see how different each place is. The driver we got was lovely and took us to a nice but cheap hotel. He then came back for us later and showed us around Fort Cochin.

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Teaching Experience

Posted By Nina Grayson on 02 Jun 2007

Going to the school was an eye-opening and quite humbling experience. We met the non-teaching staff and spent a lot of time with Rohini. Hearing how passionate she is about the children and the values of the school was wonderful, and the presentation she showed us made me almost cry. As somebody coming from a developed country where education is expected by all, it's so difficult to accept that some children just don't have those opportunities.

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Arriving in Pune

Posted By Nikunj Lukka on 05 Jan 2006

It's been a week since I landed here and it's been pretty eventful, so just so you feel as though you are not missing out on the experience I will share all with you. First stop was Mumbai last Sunday night/Monday morning. I was leaving the airport when I made my first mistake, to go with the wrong taxi driver. There was supposed to be someone waiting for me with a placard that had my name on it, but I couldn't see it and so being confused and tired (like normal really I hear you say) I went with this driver who says 'You go to Pune no?' After going about 30 meters with him it dawned on me that I am going to a hotel first and so I made a quick u-turn.

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Clubbing in Pune

Posted By Nikunj Lukka on 04 Jan 2006

Hello all, how's it hanging? or in typical Leicester speak wagwan? I went to my first nightclub in Pune on Friday, it was this up-market place that was in the basement of a 4 or 5 star hotel! The club was ok but it was all Hindi dance music and some of the dancing in the clubs is the strangest thing I have seen. But everyone smokes in the clubs, i think it is more of an image thing then anything but everywhere u look people are just lighting up! But the club wasn't a patch on revos, in fact made me miss revs even more! I went to the main shopping area of Pune on Saturday, and it was so cheap there, things are dirt cheap here.

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Himachal and Amritsar

Posted By Nikunj Lukka on 03 Jan 2006

After finishing the safari, I headed back to Delhi for a couple of days before starting my trip to Himachal and Amritsar. I did the Himachal trip with another gapper, called James. The first thing I did in Delhi was a sightseeing tour of the city. We saw all the Parliament buildings, the international embassies, India gate, the Qutab -i- Minar, Jama Masjid, the Raj Ghat - the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. The next day we left Delhi on an overnight train to Kalka, en - route to Shimla.

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Bangalore

Posted By Nikunj Lukka on 02 Jan 2006

I am currently staying in a flat-share type accommodation, sharing with other Indian university students. It is very much like student digs or something, but really cool. On my first night in Bangalore, I went to see a student play, supposedly an adaptation of a Greek tragedy, and it definitely was a tragedy so to some extent they didn't do that bad! After that we also went to a rock bar, where I was expecting bearded men in leather biker's outfits, like an American rock bar, but instead it was a fairly civilised middle class crowd just rocking along to Black Sabbath! In that sense India never fails to surprise.

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My time in South India

Posted By Clive Rozario on 29 Sep 2005

So, my time in south India and with GapGuru has come to an end. I am just about to head to airport to fly to Delhi, where I will spend one week before heading to SE Asia with a close friend. I have had the most amazing time here. My teaching at the rural school was overwhelming; better than I could ever have expected. It was eye opening to see a different way of life - the poverty, poor education etc.

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