I went to India

First, the pics.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rishisensei/collections/72157605112928238/

So we went to Andhra Pradesh,

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on the southern eastern part of the state, right next to the coast. They speak Telugu there. Did you know that India actually has 33 nationally recognized languages? And because there are so many people in India, in fact, there are 76 million people in Andhra, making it the fourth largest state by pop in India, Telugu is actually the 15th most spoken language in the world! Little tidbit from my main man Jay.

So you guys understand the name of the sets of pictures:

Kavali is the name of the city that we stayed in, about 100,000 people, but we took a bus every morning for a half an hour to the small lower caste village of KI (which is Kothasatram and Indirinagar for short). BC stands for Building Communities which is the name of the volunteer program, so BC 08 is Building Communities 08. The KI food program was a program started by a volunteer last year who decided they needed more than just houses but food too, and we celebrated it's 1 year anniversary there. Yeah, we took an evening after work at the beach, it was perfect temperature :P

The trip was awesome, the crew was great and I learned a lot. But I couldn't have done it without everybody's support, we actually raised more than any other crew that has gone there in the past. Here's a link to my reflections on India on the groups (Building Communities 08) blog. 2nd one down.

http://building-communities.blogspot.com/

Thanks to all that supported, it meant a lot : ) Much love to Japan and my fellow teachers for their support as well.