Once we arrived at the guest house in Jodhpur, we were shown the possible rooms and then we were told they weren’t actually ours; simple mistake due to another group arriving the same day.
After freshening up we had our breakfast and then we had a couple hours to chill where some people took a much needed nap; we didn’t get much sleep during our travels.
We then set off to see one of the best preserved forts in India, The Mehrangarh Fort. The architecture was amazing and we all enjoyed the sights even though we ended up becoming more of a tourist attraction than the fort itself. Guess we now know how it feels to be famous.
Once we got back to the guest house we met with the owner (of the house) and founder of sambhali. We chatted and spoke to him about what we would do during our project and he told us stories about some of the women who are/ have been with the trust.
First day of project:
In the morning we met with Govind (founder) and he took us to see the centre that we would be painting. We then returned to the guest house and sorted out the supplies and paint that we needed along with the designs and colours that would go on the walls. We also started looking at booking hotels and restraunts for our stay in Agra and Jaipur whilst a few of the team members went out to get the supplies and paint.
Around 1 o’clock we headed back to the centre and started playing games and singing songs with the girls that we met and had a water fight when it started raining. We cleared, sanded down and primed the 2 classrooms while also painting the outside windows, door frame and lower section of the wall. We also managed to paint the first layer on the doors inside the building.
After returning to the guest house after an enjoyable day despite the intense heat we enjoyed some down time before having dinner and heading to bed after a team meeting.
Before and after pictures of the centre will be shown in later posts.
– Emily & Ailsa
Always great to hear one of these blogs. Sounds like the whole experience has been incredible so far and can’t wait for more updates on project as you go 💞
Loving the updates. Train looks interesting,safer not washing your hands perhaps! Houseboat good fun too. You’ll not be needing showers with all that rain. Good practise for student uni life 😂😂😂 It’ll be good to see the before and after decorating pictures of the project, what colours are you going for – Egyptian Cotton, Natural Hessian, Pebble? (Lauren will relate to this) Hope you get some arty stuff on walls too. Is the food going down well? Lauren – Sheila had Battenburg Ice Cream in shop over weekend 🍦😋. Dad is back at work, I was at Grandpa’s for weekend, I was updating him, and he says he hopes you don’t get ‘Jelly Belly’ 😂😂😂 he liked the idea of the elephant road block . Love to all, hope Grace’s arm injury isn’t serious. Stay safe and hydrated 💧☔😘
Hope the painting has been a success and there’s a bit of a Milne’s flair of artistry and design going on 🙂 I also hope most of it is managing to get as far as the walls and doors and not on all of you although I’m sure some of you will have a few different coloured specks 🙂 🙂
Have fun and keep healthy
xxxxx
Oh!my goodness will looking for some great artist work on your wall,I can imagine what Ailsa will be drawing(one of her favourite characters,Granny will have a paint brush awaiting you in Beauly.
Everyone seems to be having an amazing time and will have great memories to look back on..Keep enjoying this great experience.Take care all.x
Sooooo not worried at all!!! Just received phone call from world challenge regarding Grace’s fingers. Been to medical centre had an x ray. Not broken, soft tissue damage. Ointment been supplied. Big hugs to you Grace. Missing you. Xxx