Up early this morning to go to church...we found a church by searching online which was just 10 mins walk from where we are saying and went there. It was good to be able to meet with other believers and worship God :o) The service started 30 minutes after the start time stated on the website, so for a wee change we were early!! Now if only Findlay had the same delay i would have been ok! The church were very welcoming and we enjoyed singing songs in English and listening in Hindi! I'm pretty sure the pair of us stick out like a sore thumb most places we go here but we certainly weren't going to slip in and out of church without anyone noticing!...they had all visitors stand up and share their name and where they are from! We met a lovely Japanese man who we had a lovely chat with!
Since tomorrow we start with ASHA we took the chance today to go to the red fort in Delhi, visited a few bazaars and went to the train station to have a look around.
Delhi really is an assault on the senses and it can be quite tiring to keep going! Noise, dirt, dust, smells, colour, traffic, pollution, horns, cows, dogs, touts. It is a place whee you really can't let your guard down and unfortunately you need to spend much of your time feeling suspicious. At the train station today our attempt to get into the station was interrupted forcefully one about 4 occasions by touts telling us we couldn't get in without a ticket or that we needed to get a rickshaw back into town to get our tickets at a particular tourist office...total scamsters of course! But they are so forceful and firm that you have to really battle to get away from them! Unfortunately the only people who try to “help” are other touts who will quickly pick up where the last one left...while the general public and tourist police stand by and watch.
People approach you to hassle you so much we have quickly moved to “ignore” mode, this usually is successful until it backfired a little today when we ignored someone approaching us and shouting “hey” repeatedly for quite some time before realising it was our brother from Japan we had met at church earlier! oops!!! We did quite a bit of apologising that time!
We have been using the metro a good bit since arriving and this has been a great (predictable) way of getting around the place...its very busy! Certainly being used well anyway!
We have enjoyed finding places to eat and so far we have not been victims of sickness. We've eaten in a couple of places near the accommodation and in connaught place where we had south indian food yum yum!
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