7 · 03

On to India - first few photos and videos

Well, it's about time I started highlighting some of the sights and sounds of India. There are quite a few photos in my India photos set, so I'll break this up over a series of posts, including a few of my videos on the way too.

This is the first church we were asked to speak at. It was funny: our guide had told us that we were going to a church meeting for "Seekers" - it turned out that they were five year olds, so we quickly had to re-plan our evening!

There are a lot of animals living wild all over India. It was sad to see so much rubbish strewn around, but to try to clear it up now would be a huge undertaking. It just goes as part of the different world-view of the people over there. I'm sure they'd be equally horrified by some of the things we do over here.

Mobile phone shops are everywhere - even just sitting on the street. 

There are also a lot of posters for programming courses. Programming is a big deal in India.

People drive motorbikes in a very different way to here too.

Fortunately I only really suffered from mosquito bites in the first few days, but boy, did I suffer!

I guess I'm probably one of the only DTS team members to have brought an extension cable on a trip with them, but it seemed like a good idea to me. It turned out to be so, when we needed to power a speaker system to practise a skit. Having to use a combination of UK to Europe to Indian plug converters was not ideal, but it did work! (Those were provided by the other guy on the team though).

A few videos of the roads on India (which are quite hectic and a lot louder than UK roads as everyone is actually encouraged to sound their horn all the time!):

In other news: the first of the new episodes of the Geeks and God podcast came out this week: Geeks and God Episode 128: Reboot, so it would be great to hear your feedback on that.

Have a great week.