it's raining!

We have been waiting for rain now since we came to Delhi in Feb, and yesterday it came!

It rained, we had thunder and lightning everything at ones. The electricity is not great here so that disappeared as well, but that's OK because we got these amazing lanterns and candle holders. So we took some pictures and tried different settings on our new lens, it turned out quite effective!

I have also started to sew a little to keep myself busy. I will put up pictures when those are done. But the fabrics here are amazing so it is so much fun!!!

 This is only after raining 3 minutes!          These are our buddha candle holders.



When electricity failed



And in normal daylight,



My lovley fabrics!



Easy weekend.

This has been a very calm weekend, well the whole week has been easy. Haven't done much at all, been to the gym a few times, done some shopping and relaxing. I did go to the children on Thursday which was intressting. Stephen only managed to go to the gym on Saturday this week because he has been working crazy long hours this week, and he only managed to benchpress the bar (no weights on it ) :)
Our new maid started working for us on Friday which is great, she makes super nice food. So it would be nice if we could keep her for ever!

We are enjoying a glass of red wine and watching T.V after a nice meal which I cooked myself.

Slum children who wants to do more!

This morning I went with Mark and Dennis from Stephens office to the Asha Deep Foundation.

http://www.adf.org.in/

http://www.adf.org.in/video.html

It is a foundation that is trying to help the children in the area to get a future, they also help rag picking children to get an education and taking care of girls and boys who's parents are dead and are left on the street alone.

There are 40 girls and 40 boys living there at the moment. I meet all the girls and they are lovely,they are happy, they sang songs, danced for us and had a good conversation in English.

It is a school and at the moment it's holiday so most children are home with their families, but the children who doesn't have a family to go home to stays there.

In the school they learn how to speak English,cooking, math and normal subjects. They can also choose to learn a profession like tailor making or beautician.

We also went to the slum and saw how the children lived with their families and what conditions the children are playing around all day.

This is the girls with Mark and Dennis.

                                              These are all children living in sheds in the slum.

                                                 Young children playing with their toys, bricks!

                                                   In the school, one girl learning to sew.

                                                    Others learn about make-up and hair.

                                  These women are making nails while their children are running around their feet.

To sponsor a child through this organization only cost 30000 rupees, £500 or 5000 Kronor a year.
                                     A small price to help a child change her/his life around.

Indian little girl

We bought a Indian outfit for Stephens little niece and she lookes super cute!

Strange men following us.

Last night when we went out to celebrate we walked the normal road to the hotel where our favourite restaurant is located. A tuk tuk driver stopped us, as they always do, but we tried to get rid of him saying no, no, no thank you, no that's ok, no we like to walk, no , NO!
We kept walking, and he followed us saying it wasn't safe and that there was a protest on so the roads where blocked in that direction. We didn't really believe him because the road looked fine. But then a local who walked past us said yes there is a protest on and the road is blocked. So we thought maybe he is right and turned to walk the way he said to go. The local kept walking the way we would normally go and he was fine! But never mind.
So we walked the other direction and a guy kept walking behind us, changing streets when we changed etc. The tuk-tuk driver stopped us again and asked if we wanted a lift, we said no, again and kept walking. The man who was following us started chatting to us asking if we were tourists etc. we said we lived here and yes we knew the direction and eventually brushed him off and later we saw that he jumped in the same tuk-tuk that kept creeping up behind us.
We turned a corner and it was all very creepy and not a nice area to walk in. We nearly ran to the hotel but we were fine , the road wasn't closed when we got there and no protest to be seen!
Don't know what was going on there! We read in the papers today that there was suppose to be 1 million people out protesting, but we didn't see any! We had a fantastic meal and took a taxi home!

Our pet Lizzy is also back, we went away for two weeks and she wasn't here when we got back but today she crept up on Stephen and scared him :) Yeay!

 

New Beginnings!

Yesterday morning I was a bit lazy and stayed in bed quite late, at 10 am my phone rang and it was our maid, she said she was outside our door! So jumped out and put a towel around me, pretending I was just gonna go in the shower..
She was not suppose to come until today (Saturday)
So anyway I got some clothes on and she asked where she should start to clean and where the products were that she could use, we only had one spray that did kitchen and one cloth so I said just use these ones. She said oh no mam, can't use that! So we went to the market to buy everything she needed to clean our apartment with. We came home with two big bags of products, sweeping brushes, mops etc!!
She did a great job after our rocky start and our apartment looks lovely. Don't know what she is gonna do now tho when it is all clean but we'll see.

I had a business meeting today with a lady that I met who is running her own company that is  importing/exporting fashion and interior between India and Europe,USA and Asia. It went really really well and I will start working with her to set up a company that will do the same to northern Europe i.e. Scandinavia as well as what she already has got! And also design my own cloths to export as well.
I'm so excited! I will learn a lot, travel and design! It is gonna be a great experience. I can't wait!

We have been out for a meal tonight at our favourite restaurant in Delhi; The Spice Route to celebrate and I am stuffed! always good food there but you eat too much every single time! Great Indian wine as well.

Apartment.

 We said when we started this blog that we would only write if we had done something nice or anything else worth telling. This week we haven't done anything at all, so I thought that we could show some pictures of the apartment.
It is still not 100% done, we are still waiting for an other big sofa in the T.V room and some matching side tables for our bedroom but we are good and not too worried about it, it is a mix and match kind of apartment. We didn't choose any of it but we like it.

This is our bedroom.                                                       Kitchen.

  

                                                                            T.V room.

                     Dining area.                                                                 Spare bedroom.