Friday 4 November 2011

Final Goodbye's for our Gappers in India


What a sad, but exciting week we’ve had. This week we had our last days at school, day care and orphanage, because next week is Diwali. It was very hard to say goodbye to our kids, and many tears were shed. Annie and I found it particularly hard at the day care, because the kids there are so young (some could still be considered babies) and therefore had no idea we were even leaving. As per usual, our orphanage boys were very cheeky on our last day and we had to chase them to get photos, we even managed to squeeze a couple of awkward hugs out of them! We have all had an unforgettable experience teaching these kids, and we are so lucky that we were able to be part of their lives! On Saturday afternoon we all boarded an overnight bus to Agra… a 16 hour bus ride!! (Minus Maddy who got to spend the weekend with her mum in Agra – lucky thing). We handled it quite well and even managed to get a few hours sleep. We had a quick, but delicious breakfast when we arrived and then headed straight to the Taj Mahal! Once we found ourselves a guide (actually he found us and practically begged us to hire him) we headed in. Our first few glimpses of the magnificent building were breathtaking. It was so hard to comprehend the fact that we were really there, standing in front of it. It looked just like it does in the pictures, and of course our tour guide took all the corny tourist shots for us. After leaving the Taj, we had a quick visit to Agra Fort followed by a well deserved lunch at Pizza Hut! At 5:30 we were dropped at the train station for our ride home (only 12 hours this time). We were so worried we wouldn’t have time to fit Agra in so we were so happy with the weekend and had the best time.






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