Your Average Adventurer

Dear Friends, After getting back to Mumbai on the 19th, I spent the following days seeing friends from the office and organising myself for my upcoming trip to the south starting in Hyderabad. The evening we got back I joined some friends that had been on the trip, at the Metro Sunlight, which is an Indian style bar and we had some nibbles and shared a couple of beers. It seemed like a lovely end to our 9 day excursion! OSCAR was putting on a gender equality workshop for all the staff on the Thursday, we joined late in the afternoon because it was entirely in Hindi. It seemed really interesting though as I had a chat with the lady running it afterwards. The day before I left Mumbai I went to a music workshop run by two men from Haiti who had flown over specially for it. They were in collaboration with OSCAR and other charities to bring 'music for good' by giving these leaders the skills to teach other children and enable music to benefit their lives. On that day they were le...

Dear Friends, There was a slight change of plan since my last blog. I am not in Mumbai anymore. Instead, I am writing this on a train heading towards Amritsar, 28km from the Pakistan border. I have been travelling with 4 of the OSCAR staff for the last 5 days now, after I spontaneously agreed to head off on a road trip with them at a football ground last Sunday. When they initially mentioned it, my head was telling me I should 100% go, as this would be such a rare opportunity. However, I was also feeling guilty because it would mean I’d have to leave OSCAR after committing to another 10 days, but everyone was super supportive and didn’t want me to miss out. I booked my tickets the same day! On the night of the 10 th , I met the gang at Mumbai Central Station, and we embarked on the 17hr sleeper heading to Delhi. I know its cringe but if I’m honest I just couldn’t stop smiling, I was genuinely so excited, and so happy they had invited me along for the ride. It was my 19th bi...