Orphanage Volunteer Work in India

In the process of having an amazing gap-year trip to India, I simply didn’t find the time to write my GapGuru Blog. However, now I am comfortably settled back home, I can collect my thoughts on all my experiences throughout the three and a half months that I spent there in one go. I was based in Bangalore for 2 months, working at an orphanage and staying with a retired couple called Maria and Albert. It was brilliant to live with “real” Indians like Maria and Albert, and they made me feel at home.

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I have been here for 2 weeks so far and time has passed so quickly. I am settling in to the new way of life and finding my way around the city. My host family are very friendly and feed me up well on lots of curry, dahl, chapati and rice. This weekend a few of us are going to Kerala until Tuesday which im really looking forward to. We are going by bus which might be a bit hellish (especially if theres no air-conditioning) but once we do arrive -after about 13hours, it will be lovely to see the coast and the famous backwaters.

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