This is just a quick posting to let you all know that we’re on the road for the next week and a half, hence may not have internet access…just in case you email or comment (not that many of you seem to bother…boo hoo ) We’re off to Goa for a week. The flight is [...]
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It’s almost a week since Sat’s last posting about the riots going on here and the impact is still being felt out here in the sticks. The violence in the Punjab which kicked off after the murder of the guru in Vienna resulted in armed forces being deployed to major cities, particularly Jalandhar which was [...]
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Large parts of the Punjab (the state we are currently living in) are apparently having large riots. No-doubt you Brits will have seen something about it on the BBC news or something…no doubt our American audience still doesn’t know what’s going on outside their borders. (Joke! Sorry I couldn’t resist). Anyway apparently some members of [...]
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Jo told me I should do a posting about incompetence, corruption and ineptitude. I totally agree but each topic takes quite some time, so today I’ll focus on corruption since it’s pretty relevant because of the recent elections. Well the elections are over in India, but will they make any difference? Maybe now that [...]
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Well, we’ve been here a month already and if I’m honest, this last week, it’s felt like longer but that’s mainly due to the fact I’ve been unwell the past few days and have had too much time to feel sorry for myself! Basically we’d gone for a longer run on Sunday morning as usual [...]
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As Sat mentioned in the last posting, I started teaching at the local village school on Tuesday. I’ve been there every day since then (it’s now Thursday) and think I have enough info to tell you about how life is in a rural Punjabi secondary school. The school itself is called Government Secondary School Kukran [...]
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We’ve been in India for almost two weeks now and I’m happy to report that it’s beginning to feel like home. The first week was hard, mainly because of the heat but also because the environment that we now live in took some getting used to. In terms of the heat, in the shade it’s [...]
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“What have we done?” Those were Jo’s first words last night as we settled into our new home for the next few months. We left the UK on Tuesday evening after a frantic few days sorting out last minute paperwork, our house rental and cramming in as many culinary delights as we could stomach (excuse [...]
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It’s been a hectic (and knackering) few weeks. We’ve spent pretty much every waking hour packing our “stuff” into boxes. It’s taken longer than our previous moves (we’ve moved five times in the past five years!!!!) because I’ve tried to plan each and every box. Besides all our other paraphenalia we’ve also got about thirty to [...]
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Right, before you even ask what the master plan is it’s best if we start at the very beginning. Both Sat and I have been on the receiving end of the financial market turmoil and been made redundant in the last couple of months. These are challenging times in the world today with the credit crunch, [...]
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