We're here!

On 11^th January, Izzy, Jade, Abbie and I finally arrived in India! It is the most amazing and exciting country I have ever been to, from seeing whole families piled onto motorbikes, men running into the traffic carrying goats and the constant beeping and swerving on the roads, there’s always something completely mad going on! Home from home really! After a few days of orientation and sleep in Hyderabad, we set off for Bangalore. Our hosts Vinay and Sandia met us at the airport and drove us to their house in the village of Kadugudi on the outskirts of Bangalore. The highlights of the journey were seeing a monkey sitting with a group of men by the road eating bananas and stopping at a level crossing, where a family noticed us and started shouting “white girls, white girls!”

Me and Izzy are staying in a newly built flat with Vinay, the headmaster of the school we’re teaching in and pastor of the local church, his wife Sandia and Rani, their 19 year old daughter. It’s really nice to be with a family, especially as Sandia’s cooking is amazing! She has promised to teach us how to cook some Indian dishes, so hopefully we’ll be expert cooks when we get back!

Our address is:
Adams English High School

2 Church Street

Opp. Sandy Bazaar

Kadugudi

Bangalore- 560067
Karnataka

India

Kadugudi is a small village, and the closest town is called Whitefield, where there is a train station. We are about 25km outside Bangalore, but it takes quite a long time to get there because the traffic is crazy! Rani and Vinay took us shopping for Indian clothes earlier in the week, which was really fun and now we fit in a bit more!

The school we’re teaching in is called Adam’s English High School, and it goes from nursery (age 3) to 10^th standard (age 16), and we’re teaching all classes apart from 9^th and 10^th standard. The kids are really nice and they all stand up and say “Good Morning Madam” when we go into their classrooms! We have taught a few lessons with them, but I am planning on writing another post about teaching when we have finished our first full week.

I am having a great time already and I can’t wait for all of the adventures we’re going to have in the next seven months!