LINDIA: Jaywalking!

There are two reasons I named this blog that.... keep reading to find out!

Okay this is going to be a long one since i have not gotten to get on yet!
We arrived in India around 2:30 in the morning on Friday. Two girls were there to meet us from SOS, Donnabelle and Season after an hour of horrible, croweded baggage claim, customs, and Swine Flu guns being pointed at us! I felt like a rat in maze! It was nice to meet Donnabelle because she helps to run the schools we are going to and I have been emailing her back and forth. She is an Indian girl, about thirty and she knows 6 different languages!

Anyway when we got here we found out that the hotel messed up and didnt book us and they were full!!!!!! Kinda scared me at first, but then they got us into their sister hotel which was very nice and we went to bed at about 4:30 a.m..
The next day we woke up at 7:00 (do the math!) and went to meet Dr. Rajhuns! Dr. Rajhuns is this amazing lady who worked at a prestigious school here called Queen Mary's. She was about to retire when she said that "God began to break her heart for all the children of the slums" and that she was the one who was going to help them. She did, and she now has 75 schools! WOW! Her husband was really intersting too, he was a film director for many years! After meeting with her about the teacher training, she invited us to eat with her. She made an awesome indian lunch and I was a little nervous at first, but it ended up being sooooo good!
After lunch we went to downtown Bombay and looked at the shops, then back to the flat for some Dominos pizza! (Who woulda thought?!)
Even though all of this was nice, you would not imagine the horrible things I saw in the city. Children were running up to us begging for money. You are not supposed to give them any because they are working for an adult and have to give it to them every time. We gave them granola bars instead. I almost cried every single time. One was clinging to my leg when i walked back to my car and I cried when I had to get in and lock the door. There are tons of stray, hurt dogs...and you all know how much I love dogs, so that is really hard for me too.

Okay now on to why I called this "jaywalking"

1. The driving is crazy here! I swear we have almost hit like 4,567 people in the two days I have ridden in a car! There are no laws, everyone just honks at each other!