I've now been in India for just over 24 hours!!
After a lovely evening with some old friends in London I got through my very short seeming flight (which played Vicky Cristina Barcelona - very happy, I thought I was going to have to wait ages to see it, and it was excellent; Ms Cruz definitely deserved her accolade for it!).
Caught a bus from Delhi to Jaipur which allowed me to see a little bit of the country's legendary roads - these deserve a post all of their own which will need to follow but suffice to say, it's chaos, but it works!
Deepa, who I've been speaking to here to organise this for months came to meet me at the bus station - was amazing to finally meet, and I stayed with her and her family last night! After a delicious lunch we went off to see a beautiful temple which has the giant marble tombs of all the old kings of jaipur. We had a very calm afternoon following the shadows and breezes around there and talking about India, before going to meet the AIESECers in the office. AIESEC Jaipur has just done one of their bi-annual recruitment and has 48 new recruits! So met up with some of them and then spent the evening relaxing and chatting over more delicious food (dal, bhati and choorma!) and later on a shisha.
This is a very short post as I'm just going off to move into my trainee flat - more soon!
After a lovely evening with some old friends in London I got through my very short seeming flight (which played Vicky Cristina Barcelona - very happy, I thought I was going to have to wait ages to see it, and it was excellent; Ms Cruz definitely deserved her accolade for it!).
Caught a bus from Delhi to Jaipur which allowed me to see a little bit of the country's legendary roads - these deserve a post all of their own which will need to follow but suffice to say, it's chaos, but it works!
Deepa, who I've been speaking to here to organise this for months came to meet me at the bus station - was amazing to finally meet, and I stayed with her and her family last night! After a delicious lunch we went off to see a beautiful temple which has the giant marble tombs of all the old kings of jaipur. We had a very calm afternoon following the shadows and breezes around there and talking about India, before going to meet the AIESECers in the office. AIESEC Jaipur has just done one of their bi-annual recruitment and has 48 new recruits! So met up with some of them and then spent the evening relaxing and chatting over more delicious food (dal, bhati and choorma!) and later on a shisha.
This is a very short post as I'm just going off to move into my trainee flat - more soon!
