Elephant Valley Kodaikanal

... half there, shivering now with a headache and in a bad state. So far it has not been a good start. I talk to the owners who then take a look, claiming it was out of gas and that now there ought to be hot water. Relieved and still frozen, I turn it on and see steam. **********taining my excitement I jump back in and continue with the process when... The water turns cold again. Cursing, I just bite my tongue and finish, at this point raging. I get the ass towel (why must it smell ...

We leave Madurai early in the morning (after falling out with the managements ‘24hr’ checkout policy) on a four hour bus ride to Kodaikanal, which apparently is a ’bit like Switzerland’. The bus ride is uneventful (the usual big eyed babies, giggling men, small children sent in to beg etc), but after about three hours we start rising into the most beautiful countryside. The plains open up and reveal mountains and valleys and ...

... highlights as he went pillion for the first time. Indian style of course with no helmets, it’s funny the things you allow abroad, although it was only for mile down a country road and we had given the driver a full brief on driving at only 10mph. This was just before he wheelied down the road with no hands on the handlebars and broadsided round the first bend!

The climb was at times a real steep scramble and pretty challenging, but on reaching the peak we felt ...

... Strassen, da wir ja im Prinzip von 0 auf 2100m gefahren kamen wir uns also schon beim normalen umh**laufen wie roechelnde Kettenrauch** vor. Auss**dem gibt es unzaehlige Laeden, die alle das gleiche anbieten (besond**s hausgemachte Schokolade. Diese ist nicht schlecht, nur sollte man den Leuten mal **kla**en, dass wenn sich etwas gut v**kauft, dass nicht heisst, dass es sich auch noch gut v**kauft wenn 50 Laeden es anbieten!). Wir wollten in den ...

... up like Christmas lights when the sun hit. A great church was perched on a nearby hill, and the nearest of the hills were green with vegetation. To the right the nearer hills gave way to distant mountains, partially enveloped in the clouds, producing an effect that the nearest of these mountains was darkest in color, and each string of mountains further behind the next lost power and emphasis in color much like a gray scale fading to white. My first ...

... that God will guide us in the right direction. At KIS I have engaged myself in further developing exchanges and global partnerships and I have written a curriculum for a gap semester that wants to address young adults after having completed their schooling but before choosing a career or field of studies. The aim is to have each semester 12 young people living together in a Christian commune ideally representing an equal distribution of gender and coming from the six ...

... the past which has turned already to history. While the first path fills me with hope and excitement for what lays ahead, the second path challenges me to reflect the past, learn from mistakes; recognize what has been good and beautiful as a gift of God and to reconcile myself with that which has been difficult and hard to accept. In particular the last is not always easy and for sure there have been moments and situations in which I too could have said: "My way is hidden from the Lord ...

... which of course is way to much (we only use 3 of the rooms). The hospital staff is very friendly and Dr. Ramayian who is in charge of the students here tries to make sure that we dont get bored. The hospital doesent have many patients at the moment so he has arranged field trips all around the place. Among other things we have already been with the eye department to another village for "eye-camp" where they help the ...

I decided I deserved a little luxury after almost 2 days solid, sitting bolt upright on wooden benches. The first day of bench warming consisted of 3 different 2 hour bus journeys from Pondicherry to Thanjavur. Day 2 was spent on an equally uncomfortable, 6 hour train journey from Thanjavur to Madurai. Both Thanjavur and Madurai are big towns centered around 2 very different temples. The Thanjavur temple being spread out ...

... geklappt hat wie geplant; da war vor allem Larsen Nasen OP die dazwischen kam und ihn gleich drei Wochen auss** Gefecht setzte, so dass die gesamte Hamburgzeit flach viel, sowie eine Grippewelle, die uns**e H**mannsburgzeit einschränkte. Es war schade, dass wir dadurch viele von Euch nicht sehen konnten und einige nur sehr kurz. Es ist einfach sehr schw** all das V**säumte in so kurz** Zeit nachzuholen. Wir sind dankbar für all das, was wir geschafft haben und vor allem all die ...