After about 25 hours of traveling, and a fortuitous delay in Chicago which actually allowed me to be early and make my third flight, I am in New Delhi! There were three others on my flight from London who are also volunteering with VSO so we got picked up together and rode to the center with my luggage on top of the car. The AC in the car felt heavenly after hauling around luggage, have to get used to the heat! Volunteers and luggage all arrived at the center in one piece.
So far I have seen the airport, roads from the airport to the training center where I'm staying, and the four blocks I walked to get to this internet cafe, but from these 6 hours I can tell India is a place like no other. There is such an array of people and sights and smells, its an experience for all the senses. The lifestyle and pace of life is so different from the States, it does seem like another world. Never have I walked with the traffic with cars honking for reasons that I can't really discern. Delhi seems to be frozen in time between the traditional culture and the new technological culture. I walked past an outdoor market to reach this internet cafe which is a closet-size rectangular space with stations of computers next to each other.
Since I have been here less than 7 hours, and 4 of them were sleeping, I haven't experienced much but I can't wait to!
So far I have seen the airport, roads from the airport to the training center where I'm staying, and the four blocks I walked to get to this internet cafe, but from these 6 hours I can tell India is a place like no other. There is such an array of people and sights and smells, its an experience for all the senses. The lifestyle and pace of life is so different from the States, it does seem like another world. Never have I walked with the traffic with cars honking for reasons that I can't really discern. Delhi seems to be frozen in time between the traditional culture and the new technological culture. I walked past an outdoor market to reach this internet cafe which is a closet-size rectangular space with stations of computers next to each other.
Since I have been here less than 7 hours, and 4 of them were sleeping, I haven't experienced much but I can't wait to!
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