After two really long, exciting, but tiring days on Sunday and Monday I fell into bed last night dreading the5am wake up call for morning mass at the Mother Teresa home this morning. However when I woke up I felt suprisingly good and energised, as we started on an experience i'm unlikely to forget.
When we hit the Kolkata streets at around 5.30 this morning we experienced India waking up. Already the smells of deep fried takeaway type foods came from the stalls around the streets along with some much less pleasant odours. We arrived at the Mother Teresa Home just before 6am and witnessed the prayers and singing from the Sisters for the next hour or so. After breakfast we returned to visit Mother Teresa's tomb and her room. It was an odd experience as I am not religious at all and watched members of the public, sisters and other members of the group kneel beside the tomb to pray and I felt awkwardly out of place. I knew little about the history of Mother Teresa and her humanitarian work she had done around India and beyond, and am happy to have learnt about some of that now. It was awesome to sit silently beside the tomb as the craziness of Kolkata just outside seemed to have been toned down to irrelevant background noise for the first time since I have been here.
Mitch
When we hit the Kolkata streets at around 5.30 this morning we experienced India waking up. Already the smells of deep fried takeaway type foods came from the stalls around the streets along with some much less pleasant odours. We arrived at the Mother Teresa Home just before 6am and witnessed the prayers and singing from the Sisters for the next hour or so. After breakfast we returned to visit Mother Teresa's tomb and her room. It was an odd experience as I am not religious at all and watched members of the public, sisters and other members of the group kneel beside the tomb to pray and I felt awkwardly out of place. I knew little about the history of Mother Teresa and her humanitarian work she had done around India and beyond, and am happy to have learnt about some of that now. It was awesome to sit silently beside the tomb as the craziness of Kolkata just outside seemed to have been toned down to irrelevant background noise for the first time since I have been here.
Mitch
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