So I’m already nearly at the end of my 3rd and last week here! I’m going to be sad to leave. We had 2 more volunteers leave here last weekend and 7 new people arrived on Monday! So there are now 14 of us here, 13 girls and just 1 guy. Not sure if I should say poor guy or lucky guy! In terms of nationalities, there are 3 Brits, 4 Australians, 3 Swiss, 1 Irish, 2 Belgian, and 1 Spanish! One of the Belgian girls was born in India but was adopted by a Belgian couple when she was a baby so she’s back here to see where she originally came from. After her visit to the orphanage, she was saying it was strange for her because she would have been one of those children, she was just lucky to have been adopted. I guess we all are in a way though, so lucky to have everything we have. You really realise that after seeing the children here. You can’t help but think about all the opportunities we have compared to them, just because of where we were born.
The new volunteers went on their tour of the projects on Tuesday to decide what they want to do. They came into my class and I talked to them about what I do there. When they left, I asked the children which ones they want and they all said we don’t want any of them, we just want you! So cute!
The lady whose house we use for the classes asked me to help her draft a letter yesterday. She wants to apply for a loan for some money to start a business making jewellery and clothes so needed to write a professional letter to the bank requesting the loan but her English wasn’t good enough to write it so I helped her draft it. She also currently sells ‘ice cream’, basically blocks of frozen fruit juice to the local school children. They stop by her house straight after school and give her a few rupees for some of the ice cream. Its a nice way for her to make a bit of money for herself and it’s really nice to see the entrepreneurial spirit.