The Madurai Residency

... Brad Pitt is obviuosly very popular over here as they all cheered and shouted when he came on screen. Only annoying thing is that they have an interval in the middle with trailers and local adverts - you are just getting into the story and then it is interrupted for 20 mins - grrrrrrr. Anyway the next day we returned as I had almost wet myself with excitement when I realised that Final destination 4 was out (dad its a horror film about ...

... back to get the bags & tipped off to the train station! got some snacks for the 11 hour journey & boarded! got sitting beside a lovely german lady, who gave us some good tips!had some tea (ja) & a few games of cards! got tired around 8 or 9 & thank god we booked sleepers, so settled in for the night! all going well until an indian family got on with a screaming baby & woke the whole train & kept us all awake for the guts of two hours! all part of traveling i suppose! <br><br><br><br>

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... of having to change my name to something unpronounceable. ( I don't think I would be very good at going to temple everyday either.) India folk take there religion very seriously and a daily blessing is all part and parcel of giving thanks. For me the positive note seemed to be the fact that with Hinduism you could be in and out in minutes so no long sermons to sit through. I have ...

The word that best sums up our time in Mamallapuram is 'soggy'. Not only did we arrive in monsoon season (we were prepared for this) but cyclone Nisha was on her way. Thankfully we caught only the tail-end of it but it was still enough to knock the power out for a good 48 hours. By sod's law this happened the one time we decided to pay a little extra for hot showers which operate on electricity...humph. The word 'rain' doesn't properly sum up what fell out of the sky. At it's worst, even ...

... South Indian dress, while some of the younger men and boys had funny attempts at Western attire (as in, funny T-shirts, tight faded or acid washed blue jeans, etc.). Most people were very skinny, and many had a wild look to them. The women were adorned with jewelry: bangles, golden earrings all the way up their ears, nose rings of gold flowers with colored stones in them on both sides of their nose. Children were naked, save for a black string around their waist ...

... be performing some magic tricks and then he would charm a cobra for us. "Very well!, You see these five cups, and I have one ball. I'm going to put the little red ball undearneath one of the cups and you are to tell me where it is after I finish moving the cups around.... yadda yadda yadda..." We didn't really care about the magic tricks (which were decent, to be fair) and waited axiously for the snake charming bit ...

... grabbed authentic southern Indian food before watching a traditional Indian dance. It was a lot of fun but I wasn't a big fan of the food. (imagine that) After the welcome reception I ran up to deck 7 to grab a quick bite of real food and ended up running into fifty other SASers who had the same idea. The next morning we all met in the union to leave for our Rotarian homestay in Chennai. I was really nervous going to a strange home with strange people in a strange country but it ...

... for India the solution to the great problems of today can not be expected to come from politicians or Big Business. India is a vast nation of a few big cities and thousands of villages and small-scale schemes seem to often be the most effective. Soon, the Indian Post Office will be training their postmen in the science and philosophy of effective contraception. In Indian society the postman does not just deliver the mail but quite often reads it out to illiterates and his advice ...