Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games start here in Delhi tonight. There are pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing. Hopefully it will bring a lot of people to Delhi, and it will be good for the local economy. There has been a lot of bad media internationally, as well as locally. In my, and what seems to be many other peoples, opinion Delhi is not quite ready for the games. There have been a lot of problems with building and getting everything ready. It seems to be making Delhi sad. Things finally seem to be coming together in some way, and I hope things go well.

Due to all the craziness that will be happening, we are getting out of town. All schools in Delhi are cancelled for two weeks, us included. This week we will be in Sikkim (NE India) working on a farm, and later staying at an orchid nursery. Both of which will be nice. It will be so good to be in the mountains and out of the city. Apparently there is a lot of Nepalese/Tibetan culture and influence, which will be interesting.




Next week, a smaller group of us are going to Kerala in the far south of India. We will just be seeing the town, playing in the ocean, and doing as much nature-y stuff as we can before coming back to Delhi. Internet will be minimal, if at all, so I won't update for a while. Have a good couple weeks!