The fort is a massive structure spanning a huge area of Agra, it is hard to describe in words, maybe pictures and video will help.. On our way home from the fort our driver agrees to stop at the mcdonalds close to our hosts home so the team can indulge in some food from home. Here a large fries and a medium drink is only $2 and yet a large fry in Amsterdam is $10… that’s crazyness!! We get home early with a few hours to rest before we are off to another rotary dinner mtg. Rahul takes Linda and Lori out to run a few errands while the rest of us try to rest. While they are gone the power flickers off and on dozens of times leaving us in the dark. This is a normal thing to happen here and has happened in every home I have been in so far. Most times the generator kicks in and stays on but this time it is struggling.. Betty Jo, Erin and I cuddle up on the couch to stay warm in the dark while Allan trys to take a shower by candle light. Once the rest of the team arrives we get ready and leave for our dinner meeting. Dinner was not as long as usual tonight so we are able to come home just after 11pm to get some rest. Today Linda was able to finally get a phone so we can all pay for refilling it and call home more often. Many of the team members haven’t had any chance to do this yet in the trip and take a few minutes to call their loved ones.
Monday, January 11, 2010
DAY FOURTEEN - Jan 10th - Agra
Last day in the conference and Erin brings out her peanut butter to treat us with at breakfast. I try my first banana peanut butter sandwich and I am an instant fan… why didn’t I try this before. The conference today is filled with many great speakers and topics and we get a chance to learn about a lot of the projects that rotary is taking part in all over the world. After lunch Rahul comes to take us away again for a tour of the Agra Fort.
The fort is a massive structure spanning a huge area of Agra, it is hard to describe in words, maybe pictures and video will help.. On our way home from the fort our driver agrees to stop at the mcdonalds close to our hosts home so the team can indulge in some food from home. Here a large fries and a medium drink is only $2 and yet a large fry in Amsterdam is $10… that’s crazyness!! We get home early with a few hours to rest before we are off to another rotary dinner mtg. Rahul takes Linda and Lori out to run a few errands while the rest of us try to rest. While they are gone the power flickers off and on dozens of times leaving us in the dark. This is a normal thing to happen here and has happened in every home I have been in so far. Most times the generator kicks in and stays on but this time it is struggling.. Betty Jo, Erin and I cuddle up on the couch to stay warm in the dark while Allan trys to take a shower by candle light. Once the rest of the team arrives we get ready and leave for our dinner meeting. Dinner was not as long as usual tonight so we are able to come home just after 11pm to get some rest. Today Linda was able to finally get a phone so we can all pay for refilling it and call home more often. Many of the team members haven’t had any chance to do this yet in the trip and take a few minutes to call their loved ones.
The fort is a massive structure spanning a huge area of Agra, it is hard to describe in words, maybe pictures and video will help.. On our way home from the fort our driver agrees to stop at the mcdonalds close to our hosts home so the team can indulge in some food from home. Here a large fries and a medium drink is only $2 and yet a large fry in Amsterdam is $10… that’s crazyness!! We get home early with a few hours to rest before we are off to another rotary dinner mtg. Rahul takes Linda and Lori out to run a few errands while the rest of us try to rest. While they are gone the power flickers off and on dozens of times leaving us in the dark. This is a normal thing to happen here and has happened in every home I have been in so far. Most times the generator kicks in and stays on but this time it is struggling.. Betty Jo, Erin and I cuddle up on the couch to stay warm in the dark while Allan trys to take a shower by candle light. Once the rest of the team arrives we get ready and leave for our dinner meeting. Dinner was not as long as usual tonight so we are able to come home just after 11pm to get some rest. Today Linda was able to finally get a phone so we can all pay for refilling it and call home more often. Many of the team members haven’t had any chance to do this yet in the trip and take a few minutes to call their loved ones.
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Kristen,
ReplyDeleteSince you have posted so much all at once, I am only going to comment here.
Your blogging is terrific and very much apperciated by all who can not be with you. The trip seems to be living up to it's billing as a life changing experience. Pictures would really help to bring your words to life so how about posting some of those? It would be especially interesting to put faces to some of the people who are treating you all so well.
You are obviously acting as "Blogsperson" for the group, and doing a fine job of it. However since you are all haveing different experiences and since everyone experiences even the same event differently, it would be nice to hear from the others once in a while as well. From my perspective it would be especially nice to hear from your leader.
By the way, remind your leader that she has still not filled out her profile and that she should do do so that people can see who she is.
And tell her that we love and miss her a lot.
Bill