By the way this picture does not represent Bangalore in any way shape or form. Louise - Volunteering I started my volunteering project on Tuesday, apparently everyone was told what they were doing before they arrived - I was obviously missed off this mailing list. I am volunteering at SKID which is a school for the deaf. I really wish I had known before hand so that I could learn some sign language but I am picking it up fast, I can do the alphabet, apple, ban...

Louise again! Ok firstly I'd like to point out that the last 2 blogs written by James were not a case of me being lazy but that James sneakily wrote them behind my back when I was a) sleeping - ok a little lazy and b) sat at the computer next to him (I didn't even know he was writing it!). a few more summaries: Animals: There are no monkeys in Goa, at least that we have been able to see. This has shocked me to my core seeing as we are surrounded by lots of...

Days 8-11 - Sun, sea and... trance? After 7 days of constant traveling, we decided Goa is a place to be savoured. We flew from Udaipur and upon arriving felt like we were no longer in India. The first thing that registered was the heat. The northern region of Rajasthan wasn't cold, reaching temperatures of about 20oC in the day. But at night it could drop sometimes as low as 1oC - hardly ideal when one of the things I was most looking forward to was esca...

Days 3-7 - Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Octop**** First of all, let me assure you all that Louise is alive. Despite the odd hairy moment in the back seats of various auto-rickshaws (one of which actually had a hairy back seat), we have so far survived one week in the urban jungles of Rajhastan and Uttar Pradesh. (NB: Uttar Pradesh was more of a jungle due to the quantity of monkeys). After Delhi, we travelled on 06/01/09 to Agra in Uttar Pradesh, a massive state t...

Well, I haven't been kidnapped - yet! I'm just incredibly lazy and its easier to get James to type than to do it myself. A few observations in general about India and the places we have been: Weather - At this time of year in the north of India, at least, it is very foggy, which seems to bring everything to a grinding halt. So trains, planes and automobiles are completely useless. Everyone we meet complains about the weather - they seem to think its freezing....