Tonight is our last night on MCC's campus..... :( For the next four weeks we will be touring India going to Kerala, Goa, and then finally reaching Delhi. I am very excited about being in a constant state of travel and getting to see such different areas of India. However, I will miss MCC and this 'home' away from home. Here are a few things that I will miss about Madras Christian College:
-The Porch! If you want to hang out and relax this is where you go. It is the communal area of the International Guest House (where we have been staying at MCC) where everyone goes to sit and hang out. I will miss morning coffee and newspaper time where I worked on my Sudoku and Word Jumble skills. I often was one of the first people out here in the morning so it was very peaceful to wake up and enjoy the quiet of campus. I really am going to miss this porch.
-Yoga. Speaking of getting up early, our group had the option of attending yoga classes while we were at MCC. This sounded like an awesome idea for most of our class, but the only drawback was that these classes were at 6:30am. A lot of us showed up for the first class but then slowly our group diminished as people opted for the extra sleep time. I was determined to attend all of the 10 classes they had arranged and I was able do this, along with 2 other group members. It was quite hard to get up on some of the mornings but you felt so great and refreshing afterwards that it was worth it. However, I'm not going to miss waking up that early.
-the Food! The chef at the IGH (International Guest House) was amazing. I don't think there was ever a meal I did not enjoy. They were also very good about gradually introducing us to higher and higher spice levels. SO much good food was consumed here
-The staff here that have been so amazing to us. Any little need or concern that we have they would help work it out. They were so nice even if they didn't speak the best English. They were so great and accomodating. They really made MCC a home for us, something that will be hard to leave behind.
Those are only some of the things I will miss here at MCC. I could go on and on but our flight to Kerala leaves early so we have to leave here at 4:30am which is only 6 hours from now. So with that, I will say farewell. I will have very limited internet access until I return to the United States in about a month so if you are trying to contact me and I don't respond that is why. I will try to blog when/if I can!
-The Porch! If you want to hang out and relax this is where you go. It is the communal area of the International Guest House (where we have been staying at MCC) where everyone goes to sit and hang out. I will miss morning coffee and newspaper time where I worked on my Sudoku and Word Jumble skills. I often was one of the first people out here in the morning so it was very peaceful to wake up and enjoy the quiet of campus. I really am going to miss this porch.
-Yoga. Speaking of getting up early, our group had the option of attending yoga classes while we were at MCC. This sounded like an awesome idea for most of our class, but the only drawback was that these classes were at 6:30am. A lot of us showed up for the first class but then slowly our group diminished as people opted for the extra sleep time. I was determined to attend all of the 10 classes they had arranged and I was able do this, along with 2 other group members. It was quite hard to get up on some of the mornings but you felt so great and refreshing afterwards that it was worth it. However, I'm not going to miss waking up that early.
-the Food! The chef at the IGH (International Guest House) was amazing. I don't think there was ever a meal I did not enjoy. They were also very good about gradually introducing us to higher and higher spice levels. SO much good food was consumed here
-The staff here that have been so amazing to us. Any little need or concern that we have they would help work it out. They were so nice even if they didn't speak the best English. They were so great and accomodating. They really made MCC a home for us, something that will be hard to leave behind.
Those are only some of the things I will miss here at MCC. I could go on and on but our flight to Kerala leaves early so we have to leave here at 4:30am which is only 6 hours from now. So with that, I will say farewell. I will have very limited internet access until I return to the United States in about a month so if you are trying to contact me and I don't respond that is why. I will try to blog when/if I can!