Hello all,
Thought I'd take a few minutes from our crazy last day to wish the UK goodbye.
Our plane leaves at 9.45am tomorrow, so we'll be leaving the UK for 11 months or so! (scary)
Since our last post we have been running around like lunatics trying to get everything ready to go. We now have 4 bags sat in my mum and dad's living room ready for the off. Thankfully, my brother Luke, who lives in London is coming to pick us up in about 30 minutes to take us to his house. Then we are going to stay over night, before leaving for Heathrow airport (London) at 5am tomorrow morning. After a long wait in the airport, we will fly to a place in India called Mumbai. We have a very boring 10 hour wait there and then get a second flight to Madurai, where Sr Theresa will meet us and take us to our new home. It's all very exciting!
We have done a little bit of shopping and bought enough pens and pencils to give each child in the school one each (350 of them) when we arrive. I'm sure this will make us very popular and the Sisters told us that they treasure pens because it is the only way they can come to school. Let's hope they all survive the journey intact.
That's all for now as my brother will be arriving soon and I need to say a few goodbyes. Hopefully, I will be on here again soon (I'll hunt out internet connections when we arrive) so I can give you all more information about India.
Bye for now
Mr Ball
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Monday, 9 August 2010
Planes, trains and automobiles (not forgetting visas)!!!
Welcome to our blog! Hopefully this will become a record of our year's experience, warts and all, giving you guys a chance to experience some of what we will be doing while we're away.
The first thing to say is that we haven't left yet. At the time of writing I am sat in my parent's living room amongst piles of washing and a 'to do' list as long as my arm. "Why?" you may ask have i decided that now is a good time for my first entry? Well for those of you who still think we are heading to Sudan, Kenya, Ethopia, Kenya again or Sri Lanka, there has been a noticable change. That is we are now going to India!!! A city called Madurai. We will be helping the Salesian Sisters and teaching in two schools. As far as we know at the moment (which as ever is very little), there are 350ish children (very poor), who travel from the rural, countryside areas to attend school in Madurai. As they leave their homes to go to school, they stay with the sisters. This will mean both living and working with the children full-time. Fancy having to do that St Teresa's? Never going home at 3.15, but having to live at school with Mrs Bohan and the teachers. Scary!!!
Today has been an important day as we have finally been able to book our flights. We head from Heathrow Airport, in London, on August 30th (about a week before you guys go back to school). This is very exciting for Hazel (my wife) and I as suddenly it all seems very real. We have spent the last week busily selling furniture and all our nice things, so that we leave nothing behind in England, we had nowhere to keep it. Also, we left our house and have had to move into my mum and dad's house for a few weeks. The only thing left to do now is to pack our bags, collect our malaria tablets and say our final goodbyes, all before August 30th.
I'll try to come on here as much as possible to let you know what's going on as it happens.
Speak to you soon ST T's
Mr Ball
The first thing to say is that we haven't left yet. At the time of writing I am sat in my parent's living room amongst piles of washing and a 'to do' list as long as my arm. "Why?" you may ask have i decided that now is a good time for my first entry? Well for those of you who still think we are heading to Sudan, Kenya, Ethopia, Kenya again or Sri Lanka, there has been a noticable change. That is we are now going to India!!! A city called Madurai. We will be helping the Salesian Sisters and teaching in two schools. As far as we know at the moment (which as ever is very little), there are 350ish children (very poor), who travel from the rural, countryside areas to attend school in Madurai. As they leave their homes to go to school, they stay with the sisters. This will mean both living and working with the children full-time. Fancy having to do that St Teresa's? Never going home at 3.15, but having to live at school with Mrs Bohan and the teachers. Scary!!!
Today has been an important day as we have finally been able to book our flights. We head from Heathrow Airport, in London, on August 30th (about a week before you guys go back to school). This is very exciting for Hazel (my wife) and I as suddenly it all seems very real. We have spent the last week busily selling furniture and all our nice things, so that we leave nothing behind in England, we had nowhere to keep it. Also, we left our house and have had to move into my mum and dad's house for a few weeks. The only thing left to do now is to pack our bags, collect our malaria tablets and say our final goodbyes, all before August 30th.
I'll try to come on here as much as possible to let you know what's going on as it happens.
Speak to you soon ST T's
Mr Ball
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