Its Fri 18th Apri 2008, and the end of our journey is upon us . Most of the group plus Richard & Pooja left last night for Chennai, Lucy , Marilyn Nynke an I are spending our last day in Pondy ( correction Lucy is lucky enough to be here for many more months !)
Partly it feels ike we only arrived yesteday but we have packed so much learning, discussion, sharing of ideas both with the Indian host projects we visited but also with one another and the Indian NGO reps ( Matt I never knew what an NGO was until day 2 I can now confess!), without sounding Poncy in Pondy it truly has been a wonderful experience
I will have mnay memories but in particular the strong and courageous people we met at Dreamcatchers, many young women who lost their husbands in the Tsunami., also the young beautiful Muslim woman who couldnt go to school as her parents deemed her to be too tall??? The look of pride and excitement on her face when we had the Sat reflection session , I will never forget, I hope our plan to get some people over to the UK comes off, and I cant wait too see her engaging with Naz and her project in Birmingham
My only slight anxiety aboaut the trip before we set off was about spending 2 weeks with in reality strangers. Others worried about how they would handle , food, dirt, povery etc, thankfully everyone took immediately to the people , the warmth ( including fab temperatures) , the crazy streets ,and I suddenly realised that our differences from DJ's to Ex Zimbabwean MPs' to some Norn Iron girl trying to get us all doing Yoga every morning was indeed v good planning on behalf of Richard &Pooja ( I never dared call you Judy to your face Pooja !)
I genuinely learnt from all of you and hope the conversations and plans we discussed come to fruition
Oh and Rangers are stil in the UEFA CUP
Ove and out and remember a deadline....
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