We have had a wonderful week in Delhi and can hardly believe it is almost over, and our group will be going different ways to spend time in schools, orphanages, teaching English and doing health care work. Above is a picture of our group, eight young people from the US, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia, and then Pat and I are the old folks ... We have spent our time eating traditional Indian food, learning Hindi, sightseeing, wandering in neighborhoods of Old Delhi, and sharing impressions of this amazing country. I want to share some things about the week and our program, International Volunteer Headquarters based in New Zealand, and Pat will share about the visit he and I made to a hospice in Delhi yesterday.
Our program coordinator, Ananta Kumar, is an incredibly knowledgeable and resourceful person and we have been so impressed with him. He arranged for our transportation, taught us some basic Hindi, had advice about travel and safety, and when some of our group wanted a yoga class he arranged a private class. Always patient, always with a smile - he is just a really nice person.
In the next entry, I'll post some pictures of the sights and our taxi drivers. You really haven't lived until you've driven through Delhi with these two; but if my life passed before my eyes a couple of times as we wove in and out of unbelievable traffic, I appreciated that in the less safe parts of the city, they actually walked us from the car to the entry and came back for us out of concern for our safety.
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