Hotel Mamata Vijayawada

This might be my last post here in India. I've donated my US to India adapter to the Doctor's house, and our last power strip with conversion capabilities is being left here as well. So we'll be leaving here in an hour or so to another place called Machiliputnam, then we'll go to another place where we board the train to Hyderabad, after about 12 hours we'll hop on the plane for a really ...

... us to his friend's fruit shop. He ordered us a special drink, and his friend got to work on them. He pulled out a fresh pineapple, chopped it up, and proceeded to mix in water and ice and heaps of sugar. We asked Anil if the water was bottled. He asked his friend, and replied that the water "was good." That had to be good enough for us. After all, the guy had already gone to the trouble of making us this special drink. There was no way we could refuse! It was very tasty! A ...

Not much new happened today. More assemblies, training sessions. This time we were able to spend an hour with about 12 of the schoolchildren. They caught on very quickly and had a lot of fun playing with their pictures. The staff learned a little more and they have an assignment to do now. They must use the skills we've taught them to create a biographical page about themselves and share it with the chairman using Google. This evening, a couple of ...

... from the area. Many of them are from the higher caste Hindu families in the area. They come for the valuable education, and their tuition fees- about $150 per semester- help pay for the other ministries. The Children's Center is a special program for children who come from very poor families and orphans who live on campus. They are sponsored through and by Children To Love, and are provided education, as well as food and clothing. The Subbamma Christian Hospital offers ...

... Many people were there, and they were serving some very spicy food (from what I hear, we aren't allowed to eat things that aren't prepared especially for us with purified water, as we aren't accustomed to Indian microbes). After that we had another meal (the food here is delicious, by the way). Kelly went to a meeting, and I headed over to the hospital to fix the doctor's email program and do some maintenance and upgrading.

Hello daar in t westen! tijd voor een nieuwe update... We zijn intussen terug in Guntur gearriveerd. Een beetje vroeger als gepland... Omdat we de laatste week in Pedapatnam echt veel te weinig moesten gaan werken (de laatste dagen omwille van de regen) waren we het daar een beetje beu om met ons vingers te zitten draaien en hebben we besloten hier dan nog wat te komen werken. (en hier is het trouwens terug mooi weer ;) als extratje...). Dus ...

... s avonds ongelofelijk lange en hevige discussies mee kunnen voeren over geloof en andere dingetjes. Onze verblijfplaats is dus momenteel best wel luxe (tov sommige voorbije plaatsen) op gebied van eten, properheid van kamer enz... bovendien zitten we vlak aan het strand dus wat wil een mens nog meer :)het enige nadeel is de slechte gsm-onvangst, zoals sommigen al hebben kunnen ondervinden, maarja, we zitten dan ook in india he, we kn niet alles hebben ;) Verder is ...

... We hebben echter ook nog andere leuke dingetjes gedaan buiten het ontwerpen. Even kort de hoogtepunten: - op 1 staat garantie het passen van sari's (de tyische indische vrouwenkleren) bij een indier thuis! zeer ingewikkelde boel maar zooo mooi en elegant, en gewoon leuk om eens aan te doen... we hebben er uiteraard dan ook maar alle 4 eentje besteld (ja 4 want de jongen onder ons deed uiteraard niet mee)... zeer benieuwd naar het resulaat! - dan waren ...

... was. I have not come across it elsewhere, but many Indians seem to answer questions with a kind of bobble of their head, and I REALLY struggle to work out what it means. (eg Do you have any rooms? *shoogling of head*. Is that yes or no? Eventually, I texted one of the other teams, two of whom were mechanics, and the consensus seemed to be that we could continue on our by this stage not so merry way. The noise was pretty loud, but it was the ...