Kristy's Blog

I never really wrote final notes on India, but a new volunteer wanted my input before she left for her volunteer experience: I enjoyed myself very much in India. It was a life-changing event for me. I have to say that at first I was not happy at all, as I had not expected to […]

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Kristina and I took the suggestion of Sheeba (Stephen’s wife) to take the sleeper train to the city of Mysore, with the intention of visiting the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, and the Elephant Reserve Kilamalai Reserve Forests. We took the sleeper train to Mysore from Chennai, and this is a good way to go. It’s […]

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Today I went to Hyberabad, the capital and the most populous city of the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It was quite the experience. I flew from Chennai over there (hey, India is a REALLY big place) on Jet Airways, which I would recommend. Flying domestically doesn’t really pose any security risks, apparently, at […]

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I’ve been teaching on my own for the past three days at Grace School and I actually kind of like it. We having been playing games with flashcards. The kids love this game. They compete to see how many flashcards they could get right. They really loved this game and everyday, they keep asking to […]

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Today we went temple-hopping – a sport practiced here in the along the coast south of Chennai. We went to the Ekambreswarar temple at Kanchipuram. This ancient city of temples is one of the leading centers of Shakti worship in Tamilnadu. This temple was part of a cluster of temples and was over 3000 years […]

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Well, I made it through 1 week. I am resigned to the fact that I will have to go it alone with the kids next week and the week after. Christina has gotten our Global Volunteer leader to adhere to his promise of construction work. Even I will get to do a little. We decided […]

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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. […]

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