Indian people really good in utilize the sources they have, not wasting every bit of it. I actually discovered two more uses of cow dung today. First, dried cow dung can be used as fuel tablet for cooking. Second, used cow dung tablet (ash) can be used as detergent/soap to wash the dishes. How does it sound? I'd never think of using cow dung to wash my dishes by the way.
Actually my workload is light, light enough that I’ve a lot of free time. Without wasting the time, I’d learned how to make the flower hair band Indian women used to tie on their hair yesterday. It’s really a difficult task, one has to be very skilful to make a nice one. Since I did it on the first time, I think I had done a great job.
The ride home is always scenic, though not comfortable. I can see what Indian people doing for a living, how their live goes on. People harvesting paddy, herding cows or lambs, children and teenagers playing cricket… Today I even saw people herding a group of ducks. I did saw people herding group of small ducks in the town days ago, but this is the first time I saw people herding a group of adult ducks, some 150-200 of them.
There will be another new volunteer or intern arrives on Monday, she's a girl from France, and by that time I won't be 'new' anymore. The happy time to have people fetch me to work and back to home will also come to an end following her arrival, I'm going to take the bus to the project site with the girl and a staff from the NGO I work with.
I will leave the town for two days, spending my weekend in Mamallapuram, a small seaside village famous with its historical sites (temples, caves, bas-reliefs, rathas) and carvings.
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