Tonight, I leave on an overnight train from Amravati to Mumbai. I will spend 3 days ‘decompressing’ and shopping and then will be on my way home. I have a lot to process, think about and reflect upon. I am grateful to have had this time to reconnect with this part of my heart.
I am finishing my time in Bahiram and Paratwara and packing up my suitcases. Clothes are washed. Gifts are given. Classrooms have all been visited. I have three days in Mumbai and then I am back to Spain.
11 schools visited.
8 welcome assemblies.
24 “”Friends of Padhar Schools” bags given
44 sponsored students located and photographed.
1 water cooler and purifier ordered and received.
3 nursing students given scholarships.
Many flowers and monkeys seen and photographed.
13 days of monsoonal rain.
Many many electrical blackouts.
8 family dinners.
Only 1 bad slip and fall that resulted in 3 bruises and 1 bruised ego.
5 nights watched of “Aai Kuthe Kay Karte” - a serial TV program in Marathi.
