Hotel Ilapuram Vijayawada

... day of traveling. (Literally, we are traveling along with the sun, so we'll have a few extra hours of Wednesday to deal with. I can post from my blackberry, and I can send pictures as well, and they would be posted at the end of this. Okay breakfast is ready, and we have a lot of work to try and do in the next two or three hours, so... thanks for checking this thing, and goodbye for now.

... sweet smoothie that really pleased our curry-soaked palettes. The four of us, (Susie decided not to join us guys on this adventure), sat and thoroughly enjoyed two cups each of this treat, deliberately disobeying the advice that we had been given all week. We thanked both Anil and his friend, and politely refused when he offered to make us more. So be praying for us, that we wake up in the morning with good health. After all, Anil promised to take us on another walk tomorrow night!

... came to visit us. One was selling lace cloth items sewn by local villagers, the other was selling wooden artifacts imported from the Kashmir region. I purchased a small wooden endtable for 500 Rupees (about 10 dollars). I still have a few rupees left for purchasing snacks from the shop here on campus! We sat down and looked at the items, and one of the staff members bartered on our behalf. It was a very interesting experience! I have posted pictures ...

Monday was our first day of our routine schedule for this week. For those of you that are unclear whether we're at an orphanage, hospital or school, I will clear it up for you. It's all three. The facilities here are really nice. The walls and floors are beautifully constructed, and the school building is four stories high. The campus is one of the nicest places in this remote area of Eastern India. There are three main facilities here: The Riverside School holds classes for about 370 ...

Hop off the bus and get to work! We had breakfast, a quick tour of the campus, then we went to a house dedication in the village. This was a very interesting experience. After racing through the village in the school bus, we hopped off and wandered into the neighborhood until we arrived at a brand new, four-room house wedged between a few brick huts with thatch roofs. It was just built for one of the teachers at the school ...

... is hun woordenschat spijtig genoeg meestal niet zo uitgebreid.. - mieren exact 2min nodig hebben om eten te vinden in je kamer, maar ze na het wegnemen van het eten de zoektocht pas na 2 dagen opgeven - zwemmen in de zee met kleren aan zeer leuk is, maar verdomd moeilijk - ze hier een spinnesoort hebben met 4 poten (nu dus de vraag: is dit nog een spin?) - er ongelofelijk veel soorten bananen zijn: groene, gele, sweet bananas en de ...

... te vertellen bij de fotos ;) wistjedatjes zullen vr volgende week zijn als ik mn boekje bijheb... we blijven hier tot de 12de, gaan dan nr guntur terug om dan de 14de naar hyderabad te gaan, waar ik samen met sofie en evelien de 16de een vlucht heb richting het zuiden om daar de rondreis te vervolledigen, even ter informatie... dus tot de volgende, over 4 weekjes ben ik al weer thuis!!! damn dat gaat rap gaan... heel veel groetjes, dikke knuffel aan iedereen!!! xxxxxx

... t actually that bad, but when we were served breakfast, nothing could have made us want to come back. It really looked the most unappetising thing in the world, fermented rice cakes with a slightly lumpy pale brown slop. But against the odds, I ate almost all of it, and it was far better tasting than it looked. Back at the workshop, it seemed that a local journalist had been called in - he couldn't wait to take our pictures, of us, of us with ...

... hoards of people who were literate, well dressed, and having their health problems examined. Everyone had shoes, children had toys, and there was so much order to the whole process that I just wanted to wreak havoc and scream- disrupting everything and forcing people to break out of their routines, open their eyes, and realize how well off they are. I'm really glad I walked through this door that God opened for me. Not only was it ...

... waited three or four hours. We were blessed (petals thrown at us, incense waved on us and a bowl placed on our heads) and asked our good names and if we liked India. We gave the priest an American quarter and smiled like idiots. What else could we do?