Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Old Delhi
So I have been super busy the last few days with all sorts of things. From training to getting lost in Delhi. Since my last post a lot has happened. I landed in Delhi early Monday morning around 7:00 am. After getting my bags and going through customs I was finally hitting Delhi around 8:30. I met my friends here and we headed to the house. The traffic here is crazy. Signs mean didn't squat and neither lines in the road. If you can fit whatever you're driving into a whole you take it. Sometimes it would be 5 cars a across, plus some motorcycles and bikes, in a 3 lane road. If you've ever been in Delhi traffic you know what I mean. It is a blast though. I hear it's no fun unless you hit a car, bus, bike, or even person. I have some other adventures in the streets of Delhi. From getting lost after dark to shoving 4 large Americans into a vehicle designed for 2 small Indians. A little tight. I've bought corn cooked over open coals, had some incredible chai tea, and had the best food ever momos (I think that is spelled wrong). I've got to see some pretty cool sites as well. The lotus temple is an amazing place. There so many amazing temples and other places of worship. I've got to make some great friends here with some of the people I flew over with. I'm starting to hear certain words here and there that I understand, which is helping when giving directions to places. Tonight was a great night though. A group of us decided to go out and have some fun, with permission of course. We ventured North to Old Delhi. We took an auto rickshaw for about 30 minutes to connect up to the metro (subway) where we took it into an old part of Delhi. The plan was to find some lunghi, man skirts. That search turned to finding a cloth store where I bought some silk fabric and am having some hand tailored shirts made. I'll post up some pictures when i get a Indian fort. It was built in the 1700s. The plan is that when we go back Friday night to get our shirts we're going to take a tour of the fort. Made a great connection with a guard there so hoping for some special commitment. After getting home, and stopping at a McDonald's for one of the girls, we walked down the street and grabbed some butter chicken and rice, one of my favorite meals so far. So far the trip has been amazing and I'm learning a lot about my Father and who He wants me to be. I want to thank all of you for the love and support. I can feel everyone lifting me up over here.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Monday July, 26
Monday July, 26 4:30am-Airplane to Delhi
So it has been an adventure so far. I started in Tulsa on Saturday afternoon and was supposed to be getting into Delhi around 11 on Sunday night. As you can read that did not happen. I met up with one of my partners, Alissa, in Dallas and were going to fly together the entire time. We were also supposed to meet our other teammates in London and all fly together on the last leg. I am not a big fan of the London airport. We got off the plane and bussed to the terminal. There we couldn’t find anything with our gate number for our flight. The only sign I could find was one that said all British Airways flight went out of terminal 3, we were in 5. We had a little over a hour to get to our gate and we felt comfortable that we could do that. Got on the tram to the next terminal and then had to go through security once more there, which was annoying. Once there we looked at a flight schedule and didn’t notice our flight on there. So we asked someone. They told us that our flight was going out of terminal 5. Now we were worried. It was 9:20 and had 15 minutes to get back and to the first checkpoint so they could know we were there. We had to be there by 9:35. We got there at 9:38. Yes we missed our flight. We really weren’t sure what we were going to do. So we went up to BA counter and begin our first journey of the trip. The next flight wasn’t until 5:30 that night and it was all booked up, so were the two flights the next day. Our only hope was that someone would not make their flight and we could get on. We both got put on standby for a flight leaving at 5:35 pm. Now we waited. We went and grabbed some breakfast and found a nice place to sit down and attempt to take a nap. We were successful on the napping. We found some nice chairs and settled in for a 7 hour wait. We napped off and on and got up to stretch our legs on the occasion. Then the moment of truth came. We walked up to the counter at 4:50 like we were told to find out if there were any openings. There was one. Alissa got the first ticket and was just hoping there would be a second. They sent me down to the gate to wait. Alissa had already gotten onto the bus to head to plane when my name was called. There was one more seat. It was a blessing. So I hopped on the bus and was ready to get going. Come to find out when we got to plane that we had been bumped up a class. We fell like were in a whole new world here. Bigger seats, more room, and just over all more comfortable. We fell very blessed. The big problem is that instead of getting in at 11:00 at night we are getting in at 7:00 in the morning. Although we rested in the airport and on the plane we know we’re going to be tired all day. While in the airport we were able to email our contact and Delhi and let her know what was going on, I just pray she got it. We are about 2 hours outside of Delhi right now. I hope that this will be our last adventure for a while, but I imagine that this is only the first of many yet to come.
So it has been an adventure so far. I started in Tulsa on Saturday afternoon and was supposed to be getting into Delhi around 11 on Sunday night. As you can read that did not happen. I met up with one of my partners, Alissa, in Dallas and were going to fly together the entire time. We were also supposed to meet our other teammates in London and all fly together on the last leg. I am not a big fan of the London airport. We got off the plane and bussed to the terminal. There we couldn’t find anything with our gate number for our flight. The only sign I could find was one that said all British Airways flight went out of terminal 3, we were in 5. We had a little over a hour to get to our gate and we felt comfortable that we could do that. Got on the tram to the next terminal and then had to go through security once more there, which was annoying. Once there we looked at a flight schedule and didn’t notice our flight on there. So we asked someone. They told us that our flight was going out of terminal 5. Now we were worried. It was 9:20 and had 15 minutes to get back and to the first checkpoint so they could know we were there. We had to be there by 9:35. We got there at 9:38. Yes we missed our flight. We really weren’t sure what we were going to do. So we went up to BA counter and begin our first journey of the trip. The next flight wasn’t until 5:30 that night and it was all booked up, so were the two flights the next day. Our only hope was that someone would not make their flight and we could get on. We both got put on standby for a flight leaving at 5:35 pm. Now we waited. We went and grabbed some breakfast and found a nice place to sit down and attempt to take a nap. We were successful on the napping. We found some nice chairs and settled in for a 7 hour wait. We napped off and on and got up to stretch our legs on the occasion. Then the moment of truth came. We walked up to the counter at 4:50 like we were told to find out if there were any openings. There was one. Alissa got the first ticket and was just hoping there would be a second. They sent me down to the gate to wait. Alissa had already gotten onto the bus to head to plane when my name was called. There was one more seat. It was a blessing. So I hopped on the bus and was ready to get going. Come to find out when we got to plane that we had been bumped up a class. We fell like were in a whole new world here. Bigger seats, more room, and just over all more comfortable. We fell very blessed. The big problem is that instead of getting in at 11:00 at night we are getting in at 7:00 in the morning. Although we rested in the airport and on the plane we know we’re going to be tired all day. While in the airport we were able to email our contact and Delhi and let her know what was going on, I just pray she got it. We are about 2 hours outside of Delhi right now. I hope that this will be our last adventure for a while, but I imagine that this is only the first of many yet to come.
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