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- Back in the slum
- New fashion? Comb in hair!
- Afternoon sleep in the heat - but oh, the flies (by the lady's hand)
- My auto rickshaw queuing for LPG gas in the morning rush hour
- Our Thali lunch
Dream a Dream has had two Gap Guru volunteers for the last two months - Will and Kieran. They are both from the UK and leave today. As Iwrite I am watching them pack up their things in a large cardboard box to ship back to the UK whilst they continue their travels to Northern India before returning home. Watching them is like a comedy act! They were going to go to the general post office only to realise at the last minute that large parcels that are being shipped overseas need to be sewn up in white cloth. Not sure why! Suspect that the cloth will hold the cardboard box together. Hamsa, one of the young guys working here has come to the rescue as he has found a metre of cloth and they are starting to sew the package together.
Such are the distractions of working here!! Never a dull moment.
Yesterday saw the whole team go out for lunch to say goodbye to Will and Kieran as it was their last full day. We had South Indian Thalis all round. See pics below and note the eating with the hands which I have now fully mastered.
Last night I went home (well, back the the hotel) in an auto rickshaw (as usual) and the driver must have been the fastest rickshaw driver in the whole of India. My heart was in my mouth most of the time as he was weaving in and out of the traffic at great speed. At one point I thought we were going to be crushed between a lorry and the wall of a bridge!! I just about held the remnants of my Thali lunch in my stomach!
Since I arrived here I have been working on the design of the 3-day Retreat for the Dream Team that I will be facilitating. We will spending the three days at a rural farmhouse location and the purpose will be to review last year's achievements, agree 09/10 goals and establish a new 3 year strategy which will see the organisation grow significantly.
It will definitely test my facilitation skills as there will be a wide range of ability and English language skills - not to mention the heat and the inevitable mosquitoes. The design of the 3 days has been pretty testing too and hope that it works out well.
In between, I've been coaching the leadership team here together with the programme managers and taking them through their Myers Briggs profiles.
It's now 5.20pm. I'm tired, hot and sticky. The ceiling fans are whirring around and the traffic noise poutside is constant. But I should count my blessings as I was talking to a guy in Hyderabad today where the temperature is 40 degrees and will be climbing steadily to 46 degrees over the next few weeks.
That's all for now.....
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