Last one from Manali?

Hello all,

This will definitely be my last blog to you as a GAPper - on Monday I officially finish my placement at DUF :( and will be travelling to Amritsar!

All of last week and this week have/will be full of preparations of the following sorts:
-packing
-tidying up
-cleaning up our 'penthouse suite'
-writing notes and letters to the kids and staff
-giving out gifts
etc.

I am in town early this morning to send a box of things home - not as big or heavy as the one that was sent out here, but I don't particularly want to carry all that around on my back for 2 weeks!

Every school day I am also now teaching a small group of kids to play the recorder and to lindy hop. Not at the same time of course. It's parent's day at Rainbow School on Friday and so there are to be many different performances. We have 2 - amazing grace on the recorder (which about half the kids in the home are now attempting to play during any spare moment and driving us all insane), and a lindy hop dance to 'barefootin''! It's good fun - every afternoon after lunch, lessons are cancelled and Celia and I get 10 of the coolest sweetest most fun kids up in the rec room to dance! I think we may actually pull it off, and they're having matching colourful outfits of skirts for the girls and braces for the boys that we bought material for yesterday!

We've also created a powerpoint of some of our favourite photos to show them after our speech when we leave (which hasn't been written yet). Wayne has a projector that we helped him learn to use so he's said we can borrow that. Should be good. May spark us off into a crying fit though - it was quite emotional just looking through them all again.

I'd better go as the post office should be opening soon, and then I have to get back to DUF in time for lessons or Celia will be teaching on her own again!

TTFN,

xxx