Just Learned (India)

Monday 19 January

As the flight was overnight, we landed in Delhi Monday morning at 10.30am. I was completely surprised at the view from the cabin window, it was so dusty and foggy and the temperature was really cool which was not what I was expecting! When we walked out of the airport, we were greeted by hundreds of people and surrounded by a road rage of taxis, all beeping their horns. I had to stand still for a while just to take it all in! It was like nothing I had ever seen before. People were staring at us which to begin with was really strange, as up until that point I hadn’t realised how different two cultures can be. We met Joy from the World Vision India office at the airport and headed off to our hotel. As I sat in the car, I was amazed at the extent of the poverty I had seen already.

The hotel was also an experience in itself as they were under-going construction work, making it impossible to get any sleep. I had some lunch and relaxed for about an hour, before meeting Sushma from the World Vision India office in the hotel reception. Sushma gave us a briefing (i do love it !) on how money raised from the World Vision 24 Hour Famine is going to be used to help young girls in the sex worker trade and told us more about the projects I would be seeing over the next few days. I found some of the statistics that she presented me with hard to deal with, as children as young as 8 years old are involved in this type of work. haha ;p

We set off around 6.30pm to head back to Delhi airport to catch our flight to Jaipur, which was delayed by 2 hours. We had a mad rush getting there, as we got stuck in loads of traffic and then the driver dropped us off at the wrong terminal! The team and I power-walked along the road in the opposite direction of the traffic in order to dodge cars! We made the flight in the nick of time!

well, I'm gonna leave Malaysia as I don't love actually :( but so happy cause i'm gonna go for a holiday !! :) Copy my post if you don't care to do ;) don't worry, i'm not gonna scold you :P