Week 1 - Jaipur

You will all be very happy to know that as of yet i have not had the shits!!! 1 for Lanie - 0 for Jaipur!.
But apparently its when we go down to Jaisalmer thats when you get them.

It took just over 2hours to get to London, then 8 hours flying to Delhi, (2 hours waiting in the sun for the coach once we landed) 6hours on a very very hot, small bus with all 48 of us on it (11 boys and 37 gilrs) and only one stop off for a toilet break. (Two full days of travelling in total).

Then we were put into groups and went off to stay with our host families. I'm with four other girls with my host family, which is: dad, mum, x2 daughters, a son and they also have this man helper/maid.

We've been in Jaipur for 2days, tomorrow is our 3rd and last full day. I'll give you a quick list of the things we've done so far:

Thursday
- We had a Hindi lesson in the morning
- Then went to visit the slums, which was a very over whelming experience. All the children were surrounding us, asking for money and chocolate, wanting us to take their picture and shaking our hands! They were very cute and so fascinated by all of us!
- Then we went to get measured for our salwar kameez, which is being hand made for us from material we picked and dropped off for us tomorrow (Saturday morning). Only 550 rupees, about 7 pounds.

Friday
- Had lots of different presentations about our projects in Jaisalmer till lunch (which we always eat up on the roof of the building in the sun)
- Then went to see a Hindi Bollywood movie! - it was all in Hindi, but easy to get the story. Was not what i expected at all, not all singing and dancing - it was a twisted cop film, with lots of violence and action, with only one song and dance.

The weather is amazingly hot! 33 degrees the first day of travelling, 35 the other days and apparently its going to be 40 in the desert. Its so hot and where we are now we have to be almost completely covered, so your just constantly sweating!!

Tomorrow we have an elephant ride in the morning and some free time to explore, so we're all going to get our feet eaten by those fish (the thing you had in Thiland Oli) some of the boys had it done yesterday and said it was really good, so we all want it now.

Missing everyone of course, but having too much fun and adventure to miss properly.

xxxx