And So It Begins

Rewind back to 3:15pm on 22 August 2012 and applications were closing for this, the third Auckland Grammar School India Immersion Programme.

 

Fast forward another 15 months and the time has come. 

 

On Friday the group completed their final preparations for what shapes as a significant formative experience that they are about to undertake. The highlights of this Preparation Day included:

·         Trading/swapping/begging with members of the Auckland public in Newmarket to accept one simple pen for an item that was bigger or better- the outcomes included a golf bag, live tadpoles, handbags, clothing, food, etc (I look forward to reminding the boys of their harassing antics when they get fed up with the beggars of India who eagerly await their arrival).

·         A return of members from the 2011 India Immersion Programme to send the current group off with their own very best wishes.

  

Only two hours now before everyone is expected to arrive at the Auckland International Airport.

 

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this blog-site over the next 28 days.  It will record the thinking and feelings that are stirred up within each of us as we journey across a beautifully contrasting landscape, interacting with the people of India that will guide us in a process of self-discovery.

 

We leave you the reader to create photographic images in your own mind.

 

Ben

 

Thought   

A friend of my often claims that he will ‘smash it in the face’ when referring to challenges that lie ahead of him.  Collectively our group should be thinking- ‘it would be great to meet you face to face India; to truly see you, know you, and value know’.