Here’s to loraine!

Just saw off Loraine, now an ex-volunteer who was based in Delhi and will be going home to Yorkshire tomorrow morning. We met up with Anjo, a Filipino volunteer whose placement will be ending as well in July. I asked her a slew of questions:
1. First thing you’ll do when you get back home: take a proper bath and soak up in the tub.
2. What you’ll miss in India: the color, the vibrancy, the cows
3. What you won’t miss: haggling with rickshaw driver

Before we left the club (which was virtually empty, with the floor manager prompting us to leave since they were closing at midnight), we requested a last Bollywood song for Loraine. Then we proceeded to Tapas at Vasant Continental where yet another creep just won’t quit dancing with us, even though he was blatantly told to fuck off.

It’s quite sad when you see the friends you make in India are one by one going home because their placements are over. They would usually be on the “going home mode,” wrapping up their work and disposing of their household items.

I’m going to miss Loraine and her fabulous bling-blings, her Bollywood moves on the dance floor which left every Indian man gawking, and her advise about my work. Wish you well Loraine and don’t be a stranger!