Namaste!!

We apologize for not writing for a few days (aka a week) but we've been busy teaching and traveling. We finished our program in Madurai and traveled to Manipal where we met our old friend Ishita. She and her partner in crime, Tushar, run their own surf school called the Shaka Surf Club. They were nice (and patient enough) to teach us how to surf! After getting beat up by the waves, we spent some time teaching at the Manipal Institute of Communication. We will start our journey back to the states early Thursday morning. Wish us luck. Twenty eight hours of straight travel is nothing to look forward to, but we are excited to share all our experiences with our friends and family back home. Thanks for all the support and until next time!

Jenna, Nicole, Kelsey, Ishita, and Tushar

Another success :)

We have had a great time here in Madurai! Sunday we saw a beautiful temple, Monday we taught first aid and swimming stroke development, Today (Tuesday) we taught CPR, stroke development and were the center of a press frenzy! We will be picking up the newspapers tomorrow! After our regularly scheduled classes we went to the Madurai Police Training Center and taught a combination of first aid and our water safety education program. It was so much fun, and they had very good questions! Afterwords we were driven back to our lodging in the Police bus. Tomorrow after class they will take us sight seeing! Oh, almost forgot. This morning we visited an all boys school and was honored during their opening assembly with shawls and beautiful flower necklaces! Take a look at our pictures! We hope you enjoy! :)
Love
Nicole, Jenna, Kelsey, and Olivia

First Day of Teaching

Today we met our students for the week here in Maduari. We will be teaching a week long course and today we started with first aid and swim lessons. It was a great class and everyone learned so much. It was nice to see the local temple here, but we were excited to finally start teaching!! Tomorrow we start CPR and will continue stroke development. Wish us luck! Now we are going to put our tired and sunburned bodies to bed! Until next time!
Nicole, Kelsey, Jenna, and Olivia