February 27th to March 7th; Part 2 ~ Hellish Goa

The Title is Misleading

You might recognise this person in the picture. That is Deb. She is splashing about in the waves in a place I would anything but hellish. I feel is image typifies and sums up well the environment that was Goa. The conference itself was not exactly thrilling, but we made up for that in the evenings. Suffice to say that I am deeply spoiled now in terms of what I expect from my volunteer experience.




I like this image. It's the sign of the Bollywood Hotel — the place stayed for a glorious week. Being in a more rural setting, I got to appreciate more what people meant when they said "Delhi is not India". There's some real poverty here — which stood in stark contrast to the lavishness of the hotel. I felt bad for a while, but was having too much fun to dwell on it.

Here is the entire (I think) group that was at Goa. From left to right, in descending rows. [Ahem] Caroline (from the UK), Ken (from the UK) Jane (from Ireland), Lisette (from the Netherlands), Rakhi (VSO Program Officer), Praveen (VSO office), Neil (from the UK), a waiter (from Goa), Carlos (from the Phillipines), Rimmy (who works for the VSO office in Delhi), Me, Peg (green shirt on left-hand-side), Tom (from the UK, black shirt right side), Joyce (from the Phillipines, far right side), Mutya and Juliet (from Uganda, where Tulan went), "Madmat" (VSO office), and Deb (again).

A Picture is Worth... blah blah blah

I could go into detail about my time at the Sundeep Hotel, but I think I'll just post a bunch of pictures instead. It was fun.

















































I'll post some more on the next post. I never thought I'd get sick of looking at pictures at gorgeous sunsets (I am in charge of processing all of the Goa images and sunsets figure prominently in many of them). The next post will be of Old Goa (the city had a name, but I can't remember right now).