The Life of a volunteer.....

Hello Everyone!
So I completed my first week at RTU..which was really a wonderful experience for me in so many ways! Today we arrived at the second NGO called Shantimalai Trust which is located in Trivunumalai...famous for a huge temple and well-known ashram (will give more details on above in next post). It took almost 9 hrs to get here (via 2 separate cars rides and a 5 hr train ride). They had me booked in 2nd class non a/c ----which is basically people, families everywhere--babies swinging in scarfs from the ceiling..people busting out very funky smelling food and just pure chaos!! Luckily, after an hour I was able to upgrade to first class A/C which was much more pleasant! Especially since I only slept for 2 hrs last night--yet, another BUG incident!! This time it dropped from the ceiling right into my nightie--OY!!!!!! And because I didn't have the luxury of taking a sleeping pill because I had to wake at 5:30am...I slept with the light on and barely got any sleep. Then, due to some festival (there is almost always a festival), music started blarring from mega phones at 4am--no joke!!
Anyway, I am now in the new location and have to run back to my very basic hotel room--they are bring me a bucket of hot water at 7pm for my shower. Who knows how clean that water will be...but again, thank god for the doxyclone!!
The Internet cafe is just across from my guest house--so can check emails, post daily--yippie!!!!
Unfortunately my apple laptop doesn't seem to be in sync with their system so cant down;oad photos--hmm???

Hope everyone is well!!
Until tomorrow......
Namaste,
Dayna