well once again i have little time to post... but here ar some highlights for out day off...

joahna: Take a picture of my bum! i've got bumsweat!"

I bartered for the first time! Bought a handmade travel chess set for 300 rubes. The askeing price was 450 and I should have paid 200 but it was my first time bartering and i was a little less agressive then i should have been. You have to be willing to walk away.. its a game of chess.. or poker... you have to bluff.. they will bluff back... and in the end someone wins...

things I forgot in Canada:
-WATCH!!!
-face cloth
-software for my camera so i can post pictures...
-rain jacket... cus you know.. it rains alot durring monsoon...hehe

In the news:
-about 5 hours after we left the airport 170 people rioted breaking computers and beating up workers and policemen... why you may ask... because their flight was 5 hours late and they were hungry...
-in Other news... a middle aged women was hit by a truck (who would have thought the streets were a little dangerous..um..) and in response the locals blocked the streets, burned the truck responsible along side another bus, and proceeded to beat up the driver and anyone who helped... remind me to watch my step.

Tomorrow is our first day of work and i have to be out of bed for 430! Can't wait!

day 1 in Kalkuta...the longest day in life...

o man.. so tired..
don't mind if this entry
So my day started monday morning as I got ready for the flight... then 20 hours of flying later (with a 4 hour layover and a 9 and a 1/2 hour time change) I found myself at the airport in Kalkuta at 5am surrounded with enough humidity to fill a stadium. Then came the taxi ride of death.. it was AWOSME.. there are no rules fo the road, no right side of the street or right of way... you just go as fast as you can wherever you can and try not to hit people or the random cows,pigs and goats the run around playing in the streets. We had orientation today at the mother house and tomorrow is a recoup from jet lag day... I believe we start volunteering on fri and if you want to find me i'l be at daya dan in the morning (working with disabled children) and kaligat in the afternoon (working with the dying)
anyway.. i'm not coherant right now.... so i'm off... need sleep

Leaving on a jet plane...

-Here I am after a day in a parade... it looks like i'm wearing a shirt...

-Anyway, Welcome to my Travel blog...I leave in a few hours for my seocnd trip of the year. To Kulcutta I go to volunteer for a month with the missionaries of charity... i'm hopeing to update often and with detail so that my friends back home and abroad can read about my misadventures as they happen and are fresh in my mind.