The Richmond, Puducherry Pondicherry

I ended up having to spend two nights in Chennai. I originally went to see a urologist but after getting some results back he referred me to a hematologist. Lindsay came along with me and it ended up being a really good time. I went to Apollo Hospital which is said to be one of the best in India. It was much more like what you would see in the States. It was like a big city hospital at home but with halls crowded like when class got out in high ...

... it along to the Brahman. The wedding is set for sometime in January. Priya said that she will be able to see her fiancé at most once a week, sometimes being as long as a month. She said her parents and in-laws are both pretty strict so she will not have the chance to spend much time with him before the wedding. Once the ceremony was finished we had an awesome Indian feast. In India there isn’t a straight “yes ...

... two-thirds foreigners from 38 countries.<br><br>After driving on the busy main road and then through some villages, we arrived in a quiet peaceful area of land, filled with trees and nature. It's complete irony from just a few kms away. Each settlement has its own area or work interest and expertise from traditional medicinal plants, to renewable energy to organic farming.<br><br>At the ...

Living here in the hostel is definitely an experience of its own. All of the foreigners live on the first floor and upstairs there are a few students from North India along with new professors. If I understand things right, the professors are living here until they find a place of their own. They just started teaching at PU this year so the school provides housing until they are settled in.<br><br>We eat our meals here in the ...

... br><br>The villagers are very friendly - they greeted us with a warm welcoming ceremony and presented us with gifts for the work that we are doing. The gifts are not necessary but are definitely appreciated. We are about to head to the site now, so I will write more later. I did want to add some pics.<br><br>

... are designed to turn human waste into compost for trees, i think they call it 'humanure'. The food prepared is vegan because grazing animals takes up ridiculous amounts of land and also because of the violence asociated with killing animals for human consumption. The open air community kitchen has a low-tech, highly efficient, wood-burning stove.<br><br>I arrived at Sadhana Forest by rickshaw from Pondicherry and was surprised at how isolated the farm was as ...

... 3) for 3 organic vegan meals a day. Our experience was very similar to my Peace Corps experience in that you get back way more than what you give. While I had a hard time getting up at 5am every morning to do yoga before first shift and I missed eggs (and had a really hard time overcoming the porridge texture of daily breakfast), I just loved my experience. We all live in dormitory type huts, each holding anywhere from 8 to 20 or so volunteers (read no privacy ...

... a lor of interesting thungs to say abour what is good and bad about the system they use. I am nor going to try to explain everything here, you can read up if your interested. I will just say that it is nor a tourist destination but an experiment in eqtallity and sociallism. It proves to be not better or worse than any other social system but diferent. I was hanging around with the same guys I had been to the ghandi ...

... of the city, there were handpainted (because it's cheap) billboards everywhere promoting candidates. Many of these paintings looked like they were portraying third world dictators, as drawn by the artists of Mad Magazine. When we got to Pondicherry (now renamed Puducherry), first we couldn't find either of the recommended restaurants, even tho we had the addresses, because our "guide" didn't know how to get to the main streets. One particularly low ...

... met afwassen (zonder afwasmachine natuurlijk!). Maar later hadden we een echte taak gevonden, we hebben vijf kamers een een grote hal geschilderd. Er zaten veel vlekken en vegen op de muren die er nu niet meer zitten. We hebben ook twee hele middagen chapati's staan bakken, platte deegpannekoekjes in de pan en we hebben Nederlandse pannenkoeken gebakken voor de kinderen. In zes uur tijd hebben we 175 pannenkoeken gebakken. Ze waren goed gelukt en de kinderen ...