India!

Good evening all, that is evening in india time!

I managed to make my way to india eventually, although a little delayed.

My flight was delayed by an hour at heathrow, which made my connecting flight a tad tight. The flight ended up being a little later than expected to dubai aiport which meant we missed the connecting flight.

This meant i had to get the next connecting flight to chennai, which was 4 hours later...

I did get a free meal in the airport which was some concellation, although it didnt make the time pass any faster.

I spent some time walking around duty free, but nothing much took my fancy.

I hung around for 4 hours listening to music and didnt sleep. I got the flight at 2am that morning (dubai time Gmt +4hrs).

My flight arrived at 8am chennai time (Gmt +5.5hrs) where i was greeted by anupa and her dad paul, and raj and his father also.

By this point i had been travelling for around 18 hours... without sleeping! on the other hand the planes were pretty luxurious. I had my own media centre to play with, this had many films and cd's and tv shows. I thoroughly enjoyed watching films and glancing at the hindi movies that were being played on nearby screens.

I slept for several hours after arriving at anupas house, then went for a meal at pizza hut around the corner... i found it quite funny,then slept again til the morning.

In the morning i went with anupa on her scooter to the J team (jesus team) office to go on to a school in chennai to speak about a camp in avalanche and to do a short talk and songs and games during assembly. I rode for my second time ever on a scooter carrying a keyboard on my lap through the streets of chennai, this was an experience to remember!

After doing some songs and a talk and a round of 'charlie says' we continued to chennai for coffee and an indian breakfast, then went shopping for shirts.

I returned to anupas home for some lunch and sleep over the hottest period of the day. We have just been into chennai again for yet more shirts then a look at chennai beach (the longest beach by a city apat from that of florida)

Anyway i have to leave now as time is short

much love

Charlie xx