So, yesterday I was exhausted and didn't blog. Today I'm just as tired but I guess it doesn't matter. So- I'll give you a quick summary of yesterday and then start on today.
We went to 3 schools. It took forever. I have seen so many schools. It was insane. The first school was coed- grades 1-10. They preformed an Indian skit for us. Just music and gestures, but it got the point across. While we were touring that school, most of the children asked for our autograph. We were almost ambushed. I don't think i would make a very good rock star. But I gave some of the children (later when there weren't as many and they were older - like 6-7th grade) my e-mail, so now I have some new e-pals. :)
2nd school- same as the first. A little bit cleaner and a whole lot rotary funded. The only real difference was that they have grades 1-12, and we didn't get to interact with any of the children.
3rd school and lunch: All girls school, kind of like the one in Jaipur, except different. These girls were lucky in the uniform department- polos and pants and shoes of their choice. Lunch was ok. I'm getting tired of not knowing what food is what, though. I definitely will be happy to get home.
Then we were escorted back to the president of the rotary club of Baroch (Nikki)'s house for a jewelry show. Didn't buy anything, the guy had really pretty things- but i just didn't see anything I liked that much.
Puna- our hostess's sister in law took us all shopping in the baroch market!! Yay. We got some gifts and bangles and scarfs. Fun fun! :)
Then we went back to our "home" to get changed for dinner. I was trying to get some blogging done, but I had scarcely gotten dressed and it was time to go to the rotary meeting.
The meeting was ok. The meal was good because it was Chinese, but spicy because the Indians made it. haha. But no saffron and pistachio nut ice cream this time. :(
So, we went "home" and had vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. Then sleep.
TODAY
A pretty uneventful morning- got up, dressed, breakfast (yumm), carried the luggage down, met the rest of our team, and got on the bus. Then we had about a 4 hour (i think longer) journey to Silvassa- the city of the district conference.
Once we arrived things were much more exciting. We saw lots of familiar faces, hosts and just people we met. The inauguration later got rather tiring (lots of men talking- with me so tired its hard to pay attention), but I sat with the youth exchange students (the girls anyway) and met most of them. Whoo hoo for all the past district governors and past and current presidents. Wow. I can't imagine.
Then I went with the youth exchange students back to their hotel and ended up wearing a saree with them to the dinner after the inauguration. Bangles, earrings, hair, makeup, bendi (dot on forehead) - everything. :D
Dinner was fabulous because they had stations of different food from around the world (with Indian spices usually haha). I had pizza and noodles. YUM. Then ice cream (of course).
Well, we then met our hosts who were ready to go. So,I had to quickly run back across the street and get changed back into my regular clothes (thanks to amy for the use of her saree! :D) and then ran back and slid into our new host's car. I really don't know their names yet, but our new hosts seem to be fairly young, with a 1 1/2 year old daughter. So cute. They live on a farm too. Mango farm. (what else? haha)
So, now we're here. And if no one else takes objection I'm going to sack out.
My guest bed is calling.
We went to 3 schools. It took forever. I have seen so many schools. It was insane. The first school was coed- grades 1-10. They preformed an Indian skit for us. Just music and gestures, but it got the point across. While we were touring that school, most of the children asked for our autograph. We were almost ambushed. I don't think i would make a very good rock star. But I gave some of the children (later when there weren't as many and they were older - like 6-7th grade) my e-mail, so now I have some new e-pals. :)
2nd school- same as the first. A little bit cleaner and a whole lot rotary funded. The only real difference was that they have grades 1-12, and we didn't get to interact with any of the children.
3rd school and lunch: All girls school, kind of like the one in Jaipur, except different. These girls were lucky in the uniform department- polos and pants and shoes of their choice. Lunch was ok. I'm getting tired of not knowing what food is what, though. I definitely will be happy to get home.
Then we were escorted back to the president of the rotary club of Baroch (Nikki)'s house for a jewelry show. Didn't buy anything, the guy had really pretty things- but i just didn't see anything I liked that much.
Puna- our hostess's sister in law took us all shopping in the baroch market!! Yay. We got some gifts and bangles and scarfs. Fun fun! :)
Then we went back to our "home" to get changed for dinner. I was trying to get some blogging done, but I had scarcely gotten dressed and it was time to go to the rotary meeting.
The meeting was ok. The meal was good because it was Chinese, but spicy because the Indians made it. haha. But no saffron and pistachio nut ice cream this time. :(
So, we went "home" and had vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. Then sleep.
TODAY
A pretty uneventful morning- got up, dressed, breakfast (yumm), carried the luggage down, met the rest of our team, and got on the bus. Then we had about a 4 hour (i think longer) journey to Silvassa- the city of the district conference.
Once we arrived things were much more exciting. We saw lots of familiar faces, hosts and just people we met. The inauguration later got rather tiring (lots of men talking- with me so tired its hard to pay attention), but I sat with the youth exchange students (the girls anyway) and met most of them. Whoo hoo for all the past district governors and past and current presidents. Wow. I can't imagine.
Then I went with the youth exchange students back to their hotel and ended up wearing a saree with them to the dinner after the inauguration. Bangles, earrings, hair, makeup, bendi (dot on forehead) - everything. :DDinner was fabulous because they had stations of different food from around the world (with Indian spices usually haha). I had pizza and noodles. YUM. Then ice cream (of course).
Well, we then met our hosts who were ready to go. So,I had to quickly run back across the street and get changed back into my regular clothes (thanks to amy for the use of her saree! :D) and then ran back and slid into our new host's car. I really don't know their names yet, but our new hosts seem to be fairly young, with a 1 1/2 year old daughter. So cute. They live on a farm too. Mango farm. (what else? haha)
So, now we're here. And if no one else takes objection I'm going to sack out.
My guest bed is calling.
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