Waking Up In India!

After a brief nap at the YWCA, most of the team awakened to the sound of the hustle and bustle of a typically busy Chennai morning. The YWCA is actually its own “compound” (seriously, it’s a walled fortification that has its own vocational school, phone access point, and a couple of shops), so you can stroll through gardens and hang out quite comfortably for some time without getting Cabin Fever of any sort. At around 8:30 am, the team congregated in the kitchen for its first Indian meal, a semi-Western/semi-Indian breakfast consisting of fried eggs, toast and jam, idly (small rice pancakes), sambar (pepper-water sauce), and, of course, coffee and chai-tea. After breakfast, we were met by Immanuel (TBL’s illustrious administrative wizard who makes all things “so” whenever any of our teams come), and then promptly loaded onto busses and headed out into the city for a few errands before zipping on to Pondicherry.