Days Inn Fernhill Ootacamund

... 1999-2002) and the current head, Mark Noonan, along with the former principals&#8217; wives. We&#8217;d been speaking about the school for some time, about the challenges (&#8220;There should be more language instruction&#8221;) and joys of Hebron (&#8220;Our emphasis is on life rather than rigidity and structure&#8221;).<br><br>Rod&#8217;s wife Ruthie used an acronym, &#8220;TCK&#8221;, that I&#8217;d never heard and asked her to explain. &#8220;Third Culture Kid,&#8221; she ...

... pencil. I was saved from information overload by Joseph and Jarebb; visiting alumni who arrived in Joseph&#8217;s sporty black Suzuki to take Allyson and I on a tour of Ooty.<br><br>Joined by Carolin, a German IG at Hebron, we explored the central market and St. Stephen&#8217;s, the oldest church in Ooty. Joseph was a barrel of a guy, with a swaggering walk and a look to match. He had a sharp soccer jersey and bright new sneakers and stylish wrap-around sunglasses, and owned an art ...

... of a real history teacher at Hebron, acted by a British student holding a book, exaggerating his under bite and stammering &#8220;boring, boring, boring&#8221; in a sniffy accent.<br><br>It was hilarious stuff, well done and even funny at the expense of itself. The auditorium was freezing though, and I made a note to rug up for the next night&#8217;s performance, Oliver Twist, by the graduating grade 12 class. <br><br>It was much nicer in the Hobbit-like cottage of ...

I knew from the mountain drives in Malaysia that the next 2 hours were going to be a test of her nerves. Steep narrow roads and blind hair pin bends do not mix well with stiff old buses and Indian drivers. "Why don't you take a couple of your calmer downers Mum" I suggested, quietly thinking that I could do with popping one myself.<br><br>Ootacamund, known as Ooty, is an old Raj hill station situated in the Nilgiri Hills at 7500ft. The drop ...

... teamwork it is<br>&#8230;all the way!!! <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>A short stop halfway down the mountain (3700 feet above sea level), we heard yet again &#8220;hey lachoo&#8221; &#8220; oye lachuu&#8221;&#8230;some calls that the guides were making between themselves. Maybe was a secret call on sighting an elephant&#8230;coz immediately we stopped at a cliff edge and<br>were pointed out in to ...

... cost us an arm and a leg had we seen it before we chose to stay in just his guest's wing. I should add that the Maharajah left space for a full size snooker table in our bedroom, but in it's absence we had to make do with playing hide-and-seek instead. Even with the cool hill station climate, the wonderfully maintained St Stephen's church and churchyard had plenty of reminders of how difficult it must have been for the Europeans to cope with living in ...

... many jobs did you apply for, 5, 10, 20? Imagine if you had to pay to make the application in the first place? There are Indian versions of all the popular TV shows on in the UK, Pop Idol, X Factor, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Trisha etc., as well as all the usual Bollywood films (old and new) and some of the music videos are decidedly saucy, which we were quite surprised at. Tomorrow, we're up early and straight into the mountains, literally, the ...

Today we got up at 4 am because our train left at 5.15 am. No time for breakfast, but Vishnu prepared a packed breakfast for us that we could eat on the train. We first had to take a train to Mettupalayam (2 hours) and then change to the Toy Train that rides up the mountain (2250m above sea level) at a speed of 10 km an hour. The trip takes about 5 hours, but there is never a dull moment as we swerved past waterfalls, deep abysses and towering ...

... 56-60 years younger), but he teaches a very pure form of yoga, as it has been practiced for something like 3000 years...and the journalist was interested in why yoga is continuing to grow in the west, where at the home of yoga - very few Indians practice. (I had the impression that it was a part of daily life form many indians, but that is not the case...I've met VERY few indians who do any yoga at all.) So, magazine article aside, how was my month long ...