Chirag, Day 1

Day 1 of the Chirag trip (for me, at least). Viveka and I left the house at a little after 6:30 am, carrying all of our stuff for the trip, and my laptop. We watched an episode of Heroes in the car but then decided not to continue because there wasn’t enough battery to watch a whole other episode. The journey was long, so we stopped in the middle and Viveka had a cold coffee (bad idea; she couldn’t sleep all journey). I spent most of the journey sleeping with my iPod on. As we reached the start of the hills, I decided to take out my camera, to find that it did not have full battery as I had expected, but had “11 minutes” of battery left. That was annoying. We eventually reached Chirag at 4 pm, and were greeted by Keith who was under the impression that it was only Viveka who was staying there, and that I was just the bag carrier. The rest of the group were in their respective villages working (well, not really; there was some miscommunication somewhere that meant that the villagers thought that they were only meant to be watching the work) so we just sat around the Chirag centre and looked around. I took a few photos with the last of my battery, but they weren’t great.