Kristy's Blog

This vacation is not really much of a vacation – we are really teaching kids. Some of them know English and some of them are better educated than American kids of their same age (what a surprise, huh?).

We help with 3 organizations:

• a Catholic children’s organization
• a private school for kids
• a children’s home.

The goal is to teach them all English to give them a better chance to make it in a college and job setting.

We actually have to plan lessons for these guys!

The neighborhood we are in is very poor, but safe. There is garbage everywhere and there are cows everywhere as a well. The rule of the road is: people yield to bikes, bikes to scooters, scooters to auto-rigshaws, rickshaws to cars, and cars to cows.

There is only one other person in the program for this term. Hre name is Kristina, which confuses everyone because our names are so close.

I did order my first Salwar Kameez outfits to wear – they were really cheap, about 1400 rupee (44:1 rupees to the dollar) for both of them and they are custom tailored to me. Here is a link to get an idea of what they look like:

http://www.designersalwarkameez.com/

This weekend, Kristina and I are going to go sightseeing on our own to see some temples and to Pondicherry (also on the coast).

More later…..