INDIA

I'm here! A lot has happened in three days, so bear with me - I'll try and write it all in order, but I might get excited and skip bits and come back to them later - you would think with a computer I could just copy and paste things into the right order, but that's just no fun!

Headed down to Heathrow with mum on Sunday afternoon, got there in plenty of time! Stopped at the travelodge and couldn't make mum's TV work because the remote control was rubbish! Headed to Heathrow via McDonalds, and then stood in the queue for check in - I didn't do online check in because I didn't trust Jet Airways, but they were actually ok, so definitely online check in next time! But I did stand chatting to a random American woman who is volunteering in Nepal - she enjoyed talking at me... 

Checked in, and then got through security with no problems, headed to my gate, where I got there early enough that I could sit and watch the news and catch United's amazing goals on the sport bit :P Plane eventually boarded and I was in the middle of the centre aisle... not cool! but the people sitting either side of me were ok, they kept themselves to themselves and just slept! Watched a few films and slept a little bit...

Got off at Mumbai, again no problems - security let me through fast because I looked honest and trustworthy in my uniform! Met the driver, and then Ellen, the other Sangam Volunteer (SV) (she's Swedish) and we travelled to Pune, through some gorgeous countryside that I of course slept through... 

Got to Sangam, and have been having a seriously good time :) There's 8 of us in my dorm at the minute, so that's me and Ellen who are working in Sangam itself, and also Claire (Oz), Danni (Canada), Jill (Scotland), Diane (England), Carol (England) and Chelsea (USA). Today Claire, Ellen, Danni, Diane and Chelsea went to a Market in the morning to have a wander round and I tried custard apples (seriously, tasted like custard) and this afternoon Claire, Ellen, Carol and I went to a temple, and to MG road which is a big touristy shopping street - saw TWO elephants!!

Evening activities have so far consisted of playing games - yesterday I thrashed everyone at Monopoly, and today, we played Sanguno (yes, the Sangam version of Uno - if you put down BP the person after you has to pick up 5 cards, unless you have Lady BP in which case you're safe!) and then did a jigsaw (Jess - be jealous!) 

Work starts tomorrow, so that will be fun - meetings all day apparently, starting with a formal introduction to everyone, including the local Sangam staff, so that will be fun :) I think we're basically going to be finalising the stuff for the event coming up in a couple of days!

Off to bed now though - I might get up for 7am yoga... we'll see!!

Ooo and I forgot - played in the swimming pool this afternoon :D it's been raining lots (like more than monsoon standards - apparently it rains one day in every three, and it rained for three days straight) so it's very full, and the sun hasn't been out much so it's colder than it could be! Right - actually off to bed now!