Sterling Swamimalai Kumbakonam

... br>The school covers some serious restate. There is the main school building which has two floors. Then there is the Manpower Training Centre where adults can come and learn any number of valuable skills/trades so they can make a living. The school has a detached bathroom house, basketball court and playground.

... a family, the mother would send someone out to buy us a cold soda. They would pure it into cups and give it to us. They did not drink because we were their honored guest!

Okay, they have next to nothing but when a stranger enters their home, they sit them down and go out and buy expensive soda for them? Why? I don't get treated like this by my neighbors who I have ...

... at first but after a bit became painfully monotonous. This was followed by a group of little girls dressed up in traditional (Tamil?) clothing and doing the local dances. The younger girls (6-8 year olds) were super cute while the older girls performed together in perfect unison. The next day I went to go explore a place called Auroville. I heard it was a place simlar to a commune/kibbutz where people ...

... assume they are restored periodically or not that old) and there are many stories to be seem in the architecture i feel. Having said i was annoyed about missing out on Chidambaram by the time the three of us had walked around all the temples, with the usual '********ting' as we walked, we were all pretty tired and it was getting late, so at the time i was happy to leave Chidambaram for another day and we returned to Pondi.

... t get too much attention. Walked the fairly wild seafront promenade and will do the French quarter when its cooler. very unique place with the cleanest streets in India (how do they do it?). we had a birthday in our small group today and actually found a birthday cake. For Breakfast we found a French bakery and pigged out on croissants, pain au chocolate ...

... the fee when he sent the Insurance cert. over the next day. So with me feeling pretty bloody stupid we thought we'd look for the teenagers one last time the next afternoon but didn't find them and even asked some other teenagers who knew nothing. So walking back thinking that was that and chatting about other things C. kicked a coconut in his path and l looked down at it and there was my watch lying in the sand for 25 hours by the shore line working away perfectly. So ...

... is a bit rubbish but i have aranged a tour for tomorrow - yep thats right - im going on a tour!!!! It takes me around Pondy and Auroville (next town with 70% of them foreigners, it is a completly self sufficient town). AND i think it is free! It would usually cost 110Rs but the guy says it is tourism day (or something like that) and it is free - i am joining 1 Englishman and 2 French people. Im a bit dubious about the ...

... to see what was happening around the world. War in Lebanon, terrorist plot in UK, Flooding in Gujarat...nothing new I guess. There was even a story that Kanataka would ban Cola drinks and that even Belgium was considering it because of pesticides in the water. Well, if that is the case then they should probably ban ALL drinking water in India.

... of coffee. Ben gets chatting to the owner who studied at Leeds University in 1978 and has been to our home town Huddersfield many times, most of which were spent in a drunken state. He tells us about his elaborate plans to open a hotel here in August of this year so if you come here and can afford a bit of luxury book it, it sound amazing. The coffee shop has wireless internet so I can bring my laptop ...

... vazne divny...:]]] Jinak jsme ale meli bezva time a take jsme mohli navstivit mestecko Arovill ktere bylo vytvorene specialne pro komunitu lidi ,kteri maji sva vlastni urcita pravidla a byla vytvorena Asramem, takze vybudovali obrovskou kouli ve ktere delaji meditace. Sice jsem dva dny zdtravila v posteli, jelikoz jsem mela mistni ananasovi drink namychany s vodou z kohoutku takze jsem na tom nebyla moc dobre, ale zlovek ziskava zkusenosti a uz jsem zase o.k.