We had a Hindi lesson as usual and learned how to say times and practiced our rickshaw ride conversation which was fun. After our lesson we had to quickly catch a rickshaw to the polytechnic at the Muslim girls orphanage, where we were going to take part in a craft workshop.
Kylie, Katsuko and Linnea decided to do tie dying whilst I did candle making (Sara wasn't feeling to well so she stayed at Sangam - unfortunately it the bug is still going around, I just hope I don't get it) Candle making was a bit lame as all I, well actually all the teacher did was pour melted wax into molds whilst I watch not brilliant really. Really random molds as well - a pineapple and a clown. However, she did show me how to make was flowers which were beautiful and relatively easy to make when you get the trick to making the petals.
As candle making didn't take very long I was also able to do some tie dying which I always enjoy. On the whole the day was really enjoyable and relaxing, even though it was slightly tedious having to take undo all the knots after tie dying - I had used really small beads and lots of them = it took a very long time to undo them all but the end product made it all worth while. I had my first experience of an Indian train station in the afternoon - we went to buy tickets for a trip to Mumbai this weekend!!! Even though we had to queue for a while it wasn't so bad apart from when you wanted to went to the rickshaw stand.
A mass of 20 or so men came up to use all saying 'My rickshaw Madam, mine' slightly overwhelming but we quickly got away when a guy from the crowd said Sangam = more likely to get home. It was a rather amusing ride home as by some amazing coincidence we drove past the drivers brother, who was on his motorcycle driving along next to us - freaky or what. I decided to stay in and have a relaxing evening rather than go out with some of the others, I felt rather drained of energy and just wanted to watch a film - turned out to be a really nice evening spent with Priyanka, who practiced Mehendi on me :)
Kylie, Katsuko and Linnea decided to do tie dying whilst I did candle making (Sara wasn't feeling to well so she stayed at Sangam - unfortunately it the bug is still going around, I just hope I don't get it) Candle making was a bit lame as all I, well actually all the teacher did was pour melted wax into molds whilst I watch not brilliant really. Really random molds as well - a pineapple and a clown. However, she did show me how to make was flowers which were beautiful and relatively easy to make when you get the trick to making the petals. 
As candle making didn't take very long I was also able to do some tie dying which I always enjoy. On the whole the day was really enjoyable and relaxing, even though it was slightly tedious having to take undo all the knots after tie dying - I had used really small beads and lots of them = it took a very long time to undo them all but the end product made it all worth while. I had my first experience of an Indian train station in the afternoon - we went to buy tickets for a trip to Mumbai this weekend!!! Even though we had to queue for a while it wasn't so bad apart from when you wanted to went to the rickshaw stand. 
A mass of 20 or so men came up to use all saying 'My rickshaw Madam, mine' slightly overwhelming but we quickly got away when a guy from the crowd said Sangam = more likely to get home. It was a rather amusing ride home as by some amazing coincidence we drove past the drivers brother, who was on his motorcycle driving along next to us - freaky or what. I decided to stay in and have a relaxing evening rather than go out with some of the others, I felt rather drained of energy and just wanted to watch a film - turned out to be a really nice evening spent with Priyanka, who practiced Mehendi on me :)
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