She is a really amazing little girl, doing some great work for her age.. After the radio station I am dropped off at a restaurant to meet with the rest of my team for a rotary lunch. It is the first time we have gone to a restaurant for a meal since we arrived so some of us choose to order Chinese for a change of pace! We are then escorted to the local Jhansi museum to see some of the history of Jhansi.. Later we take a quick ride up to the Jhansi fort, it is only open till dusk and it is getting late so we don’t have much time.. Lori is in a lot of pain by this point as she has been a trooper all day suffering from an infection in her tailbone. She needs to go home to rest. I ask one of the rotary members if he will take us home and have the other team members continue the tour. He brings us to my host families and we make arrangements to get Lori back to her home. My host has arranged to teach me how to cook and asks what I would like to learn. I don’t know any names of the meals I have eaten so far so I stick with my favourites.. SAMOSA! She shows me how to make all the ingrediants and teaches me about the main spices of india. Later I am picked up by another Rotarian and his wife to attend a meeting and dinner hosted by the oldest rotary club in Jhansi. The oldest member of the club has been a member for 50 years and he has a lot of great stories to share. After dinner we are escorted home and I spend a bit of time with my host family and their guests before I go to bed early in order to be ready our loooong day of traveling tomorrow!
Monday, January 11, 2010
DAY TEN - Jan 6th 2010, Jhansi
Vocational day for all of us and the first clear sunny fogless day since we arrived in India. I get to spend my morning breakfast with my host family, which is nice cause in the past city we always had breakfast at a rotary meeting.. My host is an event planner herself so I get to spend the day with her. She takes me for a walk behind her home where there is the largest St. Judes Shrine in all of ASIA. It is so beautiful here and I enjoy getting some exercise and fresh air. Her husband and her own the only coffee shop in town and we go there to have a cappuccino. She takes me for a quick stroll through the market nearby so I can pick up a few gifts.. everything is so cheap here.. She knows how much I like to get involved in childrens programs so she introduces me to a 13year old girl she recently heard about that has been winning competitions for her science project on composting and recycling. The girl needs help to bring her project and ideas to life and we talk about some of the ways we can get her project and message out to the public.. She needs sponsors and Sanjeet my host is arranging to have rotary get involved. I ask about getting her on the radio or newspaper, Sanjeet calls and we take her over to the local radio station for an interview. 
She is a really amazing little girl, doing some great work for her age.. After the radio station I am dropped off at a restaurant to meet with the rest of my team for a rotary lunch. It is the first time we have gone to a restaurant for a meal since we arrived so some of us choose to order Chinese for a change of pace! We are then escorted to the local Jhansi museum to see some of the history of Jhansi.. Later we take a quick ride up to the Jhansi fort, it is only open till dusk and it is getting late so we don’t have much time.. Lori is in a lot of pain by this point as she has been a trooper all day suffering from an infection in her tailbone. She needs to go home to rest. I ask one of the rotary members if he will take us home and have the other team members continue the tour. He brings us to my host families and we make arrangements to get Lori back to her home. My host has arranged to teach me how to cook and asks what I would like to learn. I don’t know any names of the meals I have eaten so far so I stick with my favourites.. SAMOSA! She shows me how to make all the ingrediants and teaches me about the main spices of india. Later I am picked up by another Rotarian and his wife to attend a meeting and dinner hosted by the oldest rotary club in Jhansi. The oldest member of the club has been a member for 50 years and he has a lot of great stories to share. After dinner we are escorted home and I spend a bit of time with my host family and their guests before I go to bed early in order to be ready our loooong day of traveling tomorrow!
She is a really amazing little girl, doing some great work for her age.. After the radio station I am dropped off at a restaurant to meet with the rest of my team for a rotary lunch. It is the first time we have gone to a restaurant for a meal since we arrived so some of us choose to order Chinese for a change of pace! We are then escorted to the local Jhansi museum to see some of the history of Jhansi.. Later we take a quick ride up to the Jhansi fort, it is only open till dusk and it is getting late so we don’t have much time.. Lori is in a lot of pain by this point as she has been a trooper all day suffering from an infection in her tailbone. She needs to go home to rest. I ask one of the rotary members if he will take us home and have the other team members continue the tour. He brings us to my host families and we make arrangements to get Lori back to her home. My host has arranged to teach me how to cook and asks what I would like to learn. I don’t know any names of the meals I have eaten so far so I stick with my favourites.. SAMOSA! She shows me how to make all the ingrediants and teaches me about the main spices of india. Later I am picked up by another Rotarian and his wife to attend a meeting and dinner hosted by the oldest rotary club in Jhansi. The oldest member of the club has been a member for 50 years and he has a lot of great stories to share. After dinner we are escorted home and I spend a bit of time with my host family and their guests before I go to bed early in order to be ready our loooong day of traveling tomorrow!
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