Mike travels to India

Mike is currently on a Habitat for Humanity trip to India with our friends Rob and Sarvin. I haven't heard much about his trip yet - except that their taxi hit a cow when they first arrived (and keep in mind that cows are sacred in India).

This is Mike here... I'm back from India with an update. I was fortunate to be part of a great group of Habitat volunteers working in an area affected by the 2004 tsunami. We helped out on the front end of a project to build 97 brick and cement homes in a village south of Pondicherry (you may recognize the name if you've read Life of Pi). The work was tough, but at day's end we had time to play cricket with the local kids and meet the families that will live in the homes. India is indeed an assault on the senses, and these few pictures hardly do justice to the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of such a fantastic place.

Rob Spence will no doubt have much better pics on his site soon (www.snowless.com).

And by the way, the cow that our taxi hit thankfully survived and walked away.




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