So yesterday we were out the door and on our way to the bus stop for GLOW girls when Brooke started gagging..We evaluated the situation and Julia agreed to stay home with Brooke. The rest of the team continued on our way to the bus stop and as we were waiting I felt the feeling...I know you all know the feeling. I tried to convince myself that it was all in my head and I was getting some kind of Stockholm Syndrome or whatever. Regardless of the reason, I ran behind the bus stop and crouched like a gargoyle and here comes Niagra Falls. We decided to cancel GLOW and Brooke and I had a sick day. After lots of sleep we both felt way better at the end of the day.
Did you know that India has peanut butter and nutella? Well, they might be like 200 rupees...which is the price of a really cute top. We do not have problems. None...no problems.
On that note, today started with delicious peanut butter and high hopes, but the monsoony-ness of India really took a beating on me today. We returned to the school in Balaji Nagar where we painted the walls white/black. This school is something like 8x8 and is meant to be a school for an entire community. It basically is a cement box with no color and no nothing. This project is Eliza's and it is so awesome. Anyway, the journey to this school is somewhat complicated, but we ended up finding it. It was super super rainy. We got there and to our surprise they had somehow been expecting a CPR lesson from Lindsey so she and Brooke had to leave almost immediately. Eliza and Meera tackled the murals inside the school and I started on the mural on the outside of the school.
It was interesting because normally the company of the people is great, but I think the combination of the bad weather and the stress of the surprises made the company of the people a little overwhelming. The kids were extremely needy of our attention and the adults were just walking in and out of the school looking around. The small space amplified everything. I kept telling myself that they were just excited for the new stuff and for the strange looking people. Thinking about it now I cannot even imagine how the teacher feels in that small space.
I finished or "finished" my mural on the outside of the school and was sooooaaaakeedddd. I think I was just staring at it so long I am not even sure anymore if it looked good. The inside looked AWESOME. As we were walking back to the main road to catch the bus one of the ladies from SAPID pulled us over to this group where they asked Lindsey on the spot to teach CPR again! So she was just teaching CPR left and right. We finally caught the bus and I am pretty sure we all fell asleep.
Sweet relief at the end of our journey was found at Golden Crown. The elixir of life just so happens to be Paneer Butter Masala, Egg Biryani, and Butter Naan. We feasted.
So what do you do at the end of a day like today? Get our heads searched for lice by our country director!
Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am the grumpiest today that I have been so far in this country, but I remain grateful. I go to Delhi tomorrow with some folks from the team for a four day weekend and then it is back to the grind on Monday and then our trip is almost over...This is going by so fast. It will be over in no time.
Did you know that India has peanut butter and nutella? Well, they might be like 200 rupees...which is the price of a really cute top. We do not have problems. None...no problems.
On that note, today started with delicious peanut butter and high hopes, but the monsoony-ness of India really took a beating on me today. We returned to the school in Balaji Nagar where we painted the walls white/black. This school is something like 8x8 and is meant to be a school for an entire community. It basically is a cement box with no color and no nothing. This project is Eliza's and it is so awesome. Anyway, the journey to this school is somewhat complicated, but we ended up finding it. It was super super rainy. We got there and to our surprise they had somehow been expecting a CPR lesson from Lindsey so she and Brooke had to leave almost immediately. Eliza and Meera tackled the murals inside the school and I started on the mural on the outside of the school.
It was interesting because normally the company of the people is great, but I think the combination of the bad weather and the stress of the surprises made the company of the people a little overwhelming. The kids were extremely needy of our attention and the adults were just walking in and out of the school looking around. The small space amplified everything. I kept telling myself that they were just excited for the new stuff and for the strange looking people. Thinking about it now I cannot even imagine how the teacher feels in that small space.
I finished or "finished" my mural on the outside of the school and was sooooaaaakeedddd. I think I was just staring at it so long I am not even sure anymore if it looked good. The inside looked AWESOME. As we were walking back to the main road to catch the bus one of the ladies from SAPID pulled us over to this group where they asked Lindsey on the spot to teach CPR again! So she was just teaching CPR left and right. We finally caught the bus and I am pretty sure we all fell asleep.
Sweet relief at the end of our journey was found at Golden Crown. The elixir of life just so happens to be Paneer Butter Masala, Egg Biryani, and Butter Naan. We feasted.
So what do you do at the end of a day like today? Get our heads searched for lice by our country director!
Happy Wednesday, everyone! I am the grumpiest today that I have been so far in this country, but I remain grateful. I go to Delhi tomorrow with some folks from the team for a four day weekend and then it is back to the grind on Monday and then our trip is almost over...This is going by so fast. It will be over in no time.
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