Wrapping up the last days

So, just a small update on how we're doing here in India. The weather is pretty hot, its 23:11 here now and im still sweating in my t-shirt in the lobby. But I personally am enjoying this heat, it's such a nice change to the temperature in Holland (no offense ;)). When we left for India over a week ago, the temperature was around 10 degrees. I heard from some friends that the temperature is better now though (around 18 degrees?).

The training is going good so far in my opinion, but I do think it's important that we also talk about how the implementation should go from here on. I am confident though about the users, especially the superusers. They're bringing up a lot of questions and are testing the system in every way possible, which is very good I think. We've still got one day left for MIS and 2 more days for general exercises and practicing.

A few days ago, some guy showed up in the bridge camp and I spoke with him for a while. He was a social activitist, trying to give more attention to child labour. He is currently touring through India on his bike by himself, visiting a lot of places where people are fighting child labour, and attending meetings about child labour. He's covered more than half of his trip now, which consists of driving a total of 18.000 (!!!!) kilometers in 90 days. I have a lot of respect for what he is doing, and it's good to see that a lof of the Indian population is also trying to fight child labour so actively.

I'm actually looking forward to my week's holiday as well. Even though its a major experience being over here, working with these people and seeing these children, we haven't seen a lot of India yet. Most of the time we only see the hotel, the road to & from the bridge camp, and the bridge camp itself. Rob is going back to Holland upcoming Saturday. My flight for Mumbai leaves 2 hours before Rob's flight. I've got a connecting flight to Jaipur from Mumbai, and there my holiday-trip will start.