Not a charismatic meeting, it's "Teachers' Day" at Asha Kiran School and we are playing the "Steeplechase Game!" Once a year the parents come in and look after the children and the teachers have a party! It happens all over India, not just in Asha Kiran. In fact the "party" began with Rita making a PowerPoint presentation reinforcing the aims and vision of the school and then I had to give a short message on the lessons we learn from Jesus as a teacher!

But after that Lilian and I took the teachers for 2 hours of party games and after overcoming their initial inhibitions they got into it as you can see and had a really great time.

Afterwards we all went back to Prem and Rita's for a meal and all the teachers were presented with a single red rose. Lilian and I were given a bouquet of flowers for organising the games.

The next morning I went with Prem to get the milk. Being India of course, it's not straightforward. First of all you join a queue and pay the man who gives you tokens. You then join another queue and when it's your turn you put your tokens into this vending machine and milk runs out into your can. It isn't pasteurised, so you then bring it home and boil it up and then put it in the fridge to cool, and that's your milk.

When we came back, the vegetable man had arrived!

We're all off to Goa this afternoon (Wednesday) for a couple of days. It's a 1 hour flight. Our time in India has been good but very busy and I'm really looking forward to just "crashing out"! I'm not likely to have Internet access until we come back on Saturday night so this is it for a while!