India Trip - August 2007

Trying to settle back into Aus

Well as predicted it's a hard adjustment back into life in the first world. In the depths of my heart I still want to be in India still but it's a tough one as my family, friends and Nenad are here. It's a really weird feeling when I come back. .....Read More

WE ARE HOME!

We made it home. After a LONG 14 hour journey we are back safely in Australia. I had my first hot shower yesterday...what bliss! I have just woken up after a HUGE sleep.  I slept for 15 hours!! I now feel revived and alive again. I LOVE my bed here in Australia! .....Read More

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India Trip - January 2007

January 20th, 2007

Hello again to you all,

Today has been lectures all day with a little OPD in the morning.  I took the opportunity to attempt packing in my break today.  It's going to be a HUGE challenge!  I received a gift from Smita one of the Dr's, she gave me a little statue of Ganesh to take with me “to keep me safe in my travels.”  It was so lovely, she is the girl who has been dressing .....Read More

January 15th, 2007

Today I think was the hardest day in India so far.  The poverty around me seems to be getting closer as my layers of self-made defences slowly fail.  This was exacerbated last night as I went to a circus here in Palghar.  There were so many girls with sad faces and I'm sure they have very sad stories to match.  I suspect they were all orphans or sex workers trying to earn their keep.  There were even two Russian performers who looked as if they had stumbled naively into the wrong hands and into the wrong place.  All of this as well as witnessing horrendous animal cruelty has made for a trying day... in a country of 1.4 billion where there is no policy on contraception, no money, no resources and not even land to build up self-sustained agriculture it's hard to see any solutions to the cycle of
poverty.

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