Big City Life

We are indeed all still alive and have made it back safe (mostly) and sound (not really with all the horns beeping) into Chennai last night. I really appreciated being out of the City and exploring other parts of the Rotary District and experiencing the differences we had in the Rotary meetings. On one occasion we had our own band to greet us and walk us to the meeting, and also had a line of school children to welcome us - I kept checking behind to see if there was someone famous we hadn't noticed! I have really enjoyed the scenery and landscape we had in the more rural areas and particularly enjoyed the Blind School we went to yesterday and the temple we visited on the Friday evening. The people have been super friendly too and keen to learn about us.

We now only have days until we return to the UK and like Ben, I shall need a period of reflection to take in what I have seen and indeed personally gained from this trip - it has been a myriad of experiences for me and I suspect I won't be in a position to understand them straight away.

I have personally really enjoyed the company of the US team and think it has made the trip as its been a cultural experience anyway being here, but then also been great to learn about them - I hope there are some friends we have made along the way there.

Today is a free day so everyone apart from me in the UK team has gone to the Cricket and I have had a massage and plan to do some shopping - that's how I roll on my days off!!

We have our final presentation on Wednesday evening at our Farewell GSE presentation and dinner, which I am sure we will all be very sad to attend as the Rotary clubs and hosts have been most kind to us and it's always hard to say goodbye.