I'm still in India! A lot has happened since my last post, nearly 2 months ago, and the lazy way to tell you about it is to ask you to go to www.raleighindia.blogspot.com. However to give you the abridged version here, I spent most of the time as a volunteer project manager for Raleigh, starting just outside of Mysore for a couple of weeks for training, then heading to a small village in Karnataka called Hagaranahalli, where my team of 15 (team Foxtrot 2, which comprised 2 project managers and 13 venturers) built 12 eco-sanitation toilets, played with a lot of children and had many baby animal encounters.
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| PMs in training |
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| Getting some assistance in filling in my project risk assessment during my project planning visit |
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| Mysore Palace on our day off from training |
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| My team, Foxtrot 2, in the school grounds in Hagaranahalli |
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| one of many animal encounters! |
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| A nearly finished eco-sanitation unit |
We then headed down to beautiful Wayanad in Kerala for a week of
adventures: cycling, trekking, bamboo rafting and a survival challenge.
Epic.
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| wildlife encounters on trek |
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| Survival in leech infested forest |
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| The morning after the survival challenge |
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| About to set off on a day of bamboo rafting |
On reflection it was a truly fantastic couple of months, at the time it felt challenging, frustrating, amazing, hilarious, tiring and inspiring. There were quite a few unexpected challenges thrown our way, and my adaptability (and sanity) has certainly been tested along the way. Once all the venturers departed we had a couple of days back at field base to write up project reports etc, and following that, myself a few of the PMs who had time to stay on in India made our way back over to Kerala for some well earned R&R. I haven't got my photos up yet for the post-Raleigh stage of my journey, so I'll save making you jealous of beach-side bungalows, wild elephants and stunning Keralan scenery until my next post :)
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