And so it begins!

Namaste!
So, i have arrived!!
It took almost 2 days to get here but i am alive and well!
My 10 hour stopover in London was nice because i got to spend some time with my friend Amy, who just moved there! we took the metro into London and saw Big Ben and Trafalgar Square.
When I landed in India i didnt know we were landing until we actually hit the tarmack it looked like we were still in the clouds because of the fog and smog..Arriving at the Indian airport was a little intimidating, the honking of taxi's, and smell of pollution was a shock, not to mention i stick out like a sore thumb with my blond hair, blue eyes and pale skin. Although my Driver did not speak english, luckily there was another volunteer who was getting a ride with me.
After some confusion of where i was being placed, some volunteers and I got a ride to our volunteering location. Apparently where i was being placed was a little longer drive so i stayed the night at a Doctors house where a few interns from America were staying and working in Indian Hospitals. Everyone here is so kind and hospitable, always feeding me and handing me chai's.
I sure was not prepared for how cold it is here. I only brought a fleecey sweater but had to go out to the market to buy another. The mornings and nights leave me with a chill but the days are hot and sunny! THANK GOD for my sleeping bag, or else i would have been sleeping with a few light sheets! (thanks mom)
I am now placed at the house where i will be volunteering for the next three and a half weeks. It is a girls home, not an orphanage but a second stage house for girls who were found in the slums. It is so horrible the way girls are treated here. Some of the guys volunteering at the hospitals were telling me how they were checking the sex of babies..(for the life of me i cant remember what this is called haha, but i think you catch my drift) And if it was a girl that the mother was pregnant with they would abort it... I didn't understand how this could be legal.. i found out it isn't legal but the doctors do it because they know what the child will go through if it is born. If the mother keeps her, the girl will either be abused and left in the slums or when she gets married the parents of the Groom will take all the money from the girls parents...
We are so Lucky we do not hate to think about this in Canada..
The house i am in is a second stage house for girls. They were on the slums but they have been going to school and living more normal lives now.
I sleep with them in bunks and eat with them for their meals. I help them study and get to goof around and play with them as well.
I will get to go out on day trips to the heart of Delhi with the other volunteers and girls who run the house on some days. We are talking about a weekend in Jaiper (dont know if i spelt that right...)
The language barrier is alot harder than i thought. I have a very hard time understanding them which makes it hard to get to know them more. They are trying to teach me some Hindi but i suck at it! There are 2 girls who do not go to school and are home schooled here which i get to help out with. We go and teach on the roof of the house which is great! yesterday when we were teaching there was a bunch of monkeys who were bugging us and one got inside the house.
This blog is sort of all over the place, sorry my mind is pretty scattered.
I miss you mom, dad and corrie! I got pretty emotional saying goodbye at the airport haha. I was all calm and collected until i actually realized what was going on! I was leaving for 6 months!! haha well love you a bunch I will keep blogging whenever i get a chance and put some pictures up soon!