It’s half past ten in the evening and I’m already to tired to be awake. There’s so much happening theese days, that I don’t know where to start telling. So I wont tell to much, except try to sum up some of the most important happenings in my life right now.

In the end of last week we lived with hostfamilies in the vilage area Hoskote for a couple of days, where CSA have an office and some projects running. We visited a pree-school and an activity centre where the school-kids meet in the evening, and we teached the children some norwegian songs and games. It was lots of fun, but also quite challenging to live in a vilage and with a familiy where no one knew our language, and were the culture and ways of living are so different from what we’re used to (both from our life in Norway and in Bangalore).

This week we have started to work more on our projects, at the same time as we have started the preperations for Gracias. I will tell more about theese preperations later, but I can explain now what Gracias is: The children in the activity centre in the slum Rajendranagar, are sponsored by lots of people to be able to get their education. Many of theese sponsores are students at Christ University, and on december 16th the children will be the main preformers in a show hold in the main auditorium at Christ, as a way of thanking their sponsores. Us norwegians are responsible for teaching two numbers (singing and dancing) to some of the kids, and what that will be is still a secret…! What I can tell is that it has taken a lot of our energy and time this week, both to plan what they will do, and also to start teaching them the things we’ve decided. It’s something different to handle twenty children from an Indian slum area, which don’t know our language and our way of leading a group, than what we’re used to from norway. But this is also a lot of fun, though we end up in our livingroom in NGV, exchausted, already at seven in the evening every night.

The rest of the days we’ve spent on dancing lessons (also for Gracias – though this is only us norwegians and german Isa’s prefomance), and cooking classes – which are both very fun (especially the lunch part of the cooking class). And we are also trying to pick up our projects where we left them when we started to get tired of working the last time.

We’re only three and a half week away from leaving this warm and colourfull country. This totaly different world, that I’m actually starting to feel quite familliar with and homely in. Though there are some warm, reliving winds running through my body when I think of it, it’s also very strange and difficult to imagine snow, church bells and christmast eve in Norway, only a couple of weeks away. So I try not to think to much about it. Right now I’m still here, and I want to enjoy every second of this last period, and pick up every litle bit of new knowledge from my surrondings. So when I get home, I can still look into my heart and head and find “the Indian ways”, whenever I want.

This weekend we’re going to Kerala for a wedding, together with Vandana which got us invited (huge thanks to her!). I’m really looking forward to wear my own blue sari in a real Kerala-wedding, and get my ‘over twenty something’ gravies served on a banana-leaf. And I’m also very happy about our plan to visit a beach. It’s been over two months since the last time I could see the ocean (and I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before!). When we come back we’re moving in with host families, and I’m really curious on how that will turn out. My prejudgements tells me that it will be a very nice and interesting experience.

There is very much to look forward to, and with that fact cleared, I say good night and sweet dreams!