Delhi's delights: • the metro system- it's modern, clean, cheap and incredibly well signposted and clear announcements. • the street food!! So much choice and cheap. Delhi's downers: • the scams and hassle you get everywhere! Saturday: I headed out and got the Metro to the Red Fort- one of Delhi's main attractions. It is a huge fort originally built in the 1600s and inside are various museums and the old castles, etc. The museum of India's struggle fo...

Friday: I ended up in tears as one of the lads got hold of my hair and took two handfuls, but otherwise a normal day. I found one of the kids epilepsy tablet on the floor and another eating paint. In the afternoon, the teachers decided it appropriate to put on music, give a couple of puzzles and leave the kids to it. I had to walk away and so used the laptop to get on with what I had to do. In the evening, I finished Hemingways "for whom the bells toll" about the...

Wednesday night: I met the new lady at the bus stop about 9pm- she's a 63yr old called Anette from the UK and has spent the last few years working as an accountant for charities in places like South Sudan, Nigeria, Cambodia, Romania, etc. So she is nice and very interesting! Thursday: I waited with Anette for the school bus to take her to the project but it was over an hour late, so we'd walked most of the way before it picked her up. Another day of 1-1's, which...

Tuesday night I had dinner at the project then cycled back with a couple of the Germans. It was the scariest thing I've done on this 4 month trip- I'm rubbish on a bike anyway but the bike was too big, the brakes didn't work and it was pitch black! The roads are full of potholes and it had been raining, plus I didn't have a light and so was trying to follow the faint outline of the Germans while balancing precariously, dodging potholes/occasional traffic and tryi...

Indian observations, part 2: • people don't use indicators or wing mirrors in India- instead they beep their horns incessantly! Every time you come up behind or overtake another vehicle, want to turn, pass a pedestrian, take a sharp bend, etc. • Schools post numerous and huge billboards with pictures of the 2 or so students who achieved the best grades and underneath another 4 or so with the next best grades; like mugshots with their grades beneath "5A+". I...