Follow the progress of a group of Irish Transition Year students, who travel to India to help build schools.
This blog and the Scoilnet website (www.scoilnet.ie) documents their experiences and reflections.
Monday, January 14, 2008
John Scottus on the Road to Kolkata again
The Transition Year Students and Staff of John Scottus embark once more for India and a programme of school building and challenge in the villages of West Benghal.
Follow their experience and add your comments on this blog.
Hop you all had a safe trip and arrived in good shape. Best of luck to you all. We will be following your journey regularly. Derek,Dee and all act Action
Salutations to you all (and particularly to Mark Logan, the fella with the very latest cool hairstyle) and hope you have safely reached your destination and are having a wonderful time. Maria and I are looking forward to hearing from you. With love and good wishes to you all. Angela.
Hi from Seattle where I am at a conference. ( 13 1/2 hrs difference! Right the other side of the world.) Thinking of you all,and so look forward to hearing about it. You are a great bunch and the Americans here are amazed and all wishing you well. They never heard of such a thing! (AED) Defibrillator coming your way next Monday and I hope to get you more media cover because if it! Best of luck. Mary Vasseghi( Fiona's mum)
Hi Eoin from the London Griffins - hope you have an amazing time in India - we can't wait to hear all about it, Looking forward to seeing you in March - Cheers from Val Avril and Sam
JOEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!get up off ur ass and write us something!!Its ur little big sis here!! Big kisses from all us at home, talk to us soon mmmk? Loves ya!XXXXXX
Glad to hear you all got there safely with or without all the bags! Miss you here. Can't wait to see all at work. Love Mum xxx
Léo, you forgot to pack your Speedos - you know the really tight yellow ones you like so much. I wouldn't worry too much as you've probably little or no time for sunbathing. All strangely quiet here without you. Sharon popped over with her new boyfriend last night - he seems like a nice enough fellow. That's girls for you. All the lads in Surma wish you the best - we had supper there in your honour with Ian and Tanie. We miss you (well, Mum does...okay and I do too) and really hope you're having a better time than packing bags in SuperValu. I really hope the locals went out to celebrate yesterday after beating the filthy Aussie's down under (cricket, Léo - it's big in India). Oh, mum got her car clamped!! For parking outside our house!! The right wing of Merton Drive has spoken. Stay in touch and email us if you need anything sent out. Except money. Love, Johnny xx
Hey, just leaving a comment, wishing all the best for India '08! From what i hear, there have already been a few baggage losses, but hopefully things will improve. This time last year was the best of my life, and i hope it will have a lasting effect on Irish and Indians alike.
PS: To Mr. Alex, a reminder to bring back the little bag of consignments i requested...
Hey Adam (and the rest of the crew!), Glad to hear you all arrived safe and sound!Hope your throwing up buildings over there and taking the whole experience in. No real news over here, got an offer to go professional with the ol table tennis...bit embarassing really after such a short time but whatever! Thats really it...I'm off to get a nice salty bag of chips soaked in vinegar now..might get a nice batter sausage as well!!!
great to see photos and read about all that's going on over there. Would love to hear from you if you get a chance to email or add to the blog. We're all fine but we miss you, of course! Pity our phone call got cut short the other day, haven't been able to get through to you since. Brígh in the middle of all the cao application stuff so you can imagine the stress and strain that goes on here at the moment. If you were here, you'd best steer clear of the blonde monstress. Dad went to physiotherapist today and she thought his leg was a little better. Test for that coming up soon with neurologist. Niamh has scan tomorrow, I am going to go with her and see how the babies are doing. They are moving around a lot and she is finding it hard to sleep. Kelly is... Kelly! Are you behaving yourself? Eating well? Don't drink too much coca-cola just because it's cheap. That stuff is bad for your teeth. Anyway, love you to bits, stay well, work hard and have fun,
16 comments:
Best of luck to all and I will be watching your progress very closly
Only 4 hours to go.....
Can't wait!
Stephen
We look forward to hearing of your safe (and not too exhausted) arrival.
Best of luck to all for the weeks ahead.
Griffins in Dublin.
Hi all . Assume you've all arrived safe and well..... Will be thinking of you. Have a wonderful time! Dying to hear from you.
The Dunnes ( A,S, and L)
Wishing you all the very best. Have a wonderful time. Stay safe, learn and grow.
Maria in Dublin
Hop you all had a safe trip and arrived in good shape. Best of luck to you all. We will be following your journey regularly.
Derek,Dee and all act Action
Salutations to you all (and particularly to Mark Logan, the fella with the very latest cool hairstyle) and hope you have safely reached your destination and are having a wonderful time. Maria and I are looking forward to hearing from you. With love and good wishes to you all. Angela.
Hi from Seattle where I am at a conference. ( 13 1/2 hrs difference! Right the other side of the world.) Thinking of you all,and so look forward to hearing about it. You are a great bunch and the Americans here are amazed and all wishing you well. They never heard of such a thing!
(AED) Defibrillator coming your way next Monday and I hope to get you more media cover because if it!
Best of luck.
Mary Vasseghi( Fiona's mum)
Hey Jonathan, marie and michelle here, hope alls going well and hope you are not too lost without your bag! Good luck and keep in touch!
Also good luck to all 4th years and teachers!
Hi Eoin from the London Griffins - hope you have an amazing time in India - we can't wait to hear all about it,
Looking forward to seeing you in March - Cheers from Val Avril and Sam
JOEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!get up off ur ass and write us something!!Its ur little big sis here!! Big kisses from all us at home, talk to us soon mmmk? Loves ya!XXXXXX
Hey Léo
Glad to hear you all got there safely with or without all the bags! Miss you here.
Can't wait to see all at work. Love Mum xxx
Léo, you forgot to pack your Speedos - you know the really tight yellow ones you like so much. I wouldn't worry too much as you've probably little or no time for sunbathing. All strangely quiet here without you. Sharon popped over with her new boyfriend last night - he seems like a nice enough fellow. That's girls for you. All the lads in Surma wish you the best - we had supper there in your honour with Ian and Tanie. We miss you (well, Mum does...okay and I do too) and really hope you're having a better time than packing bags in SuperValu. I really hope the locals went out to celebrate yesterday after beating the filthy Aussie's down under (cricket, Léo - it's big in India). Oh, mum got her car clamped!! For parking outside our house!! The right wing of Merton Drive has spoken. Stay in touch and email us if you need anything sent out. Except money. Love, Johnny xx
Hey, just leaving a comment, wishing all the best for India '08! From what i hear, there have already been a few baggage losses, but hopefully things will improve. This time last year was the best of my life, and i hope it will have a lasting effect on Irish and Indians alike.
PS: To Mr. Alex, a reminder to bring back the little bag of consignments i requested...
Hey Adam (and the rest of the crew!),
Glad to hear you all arrived safe and sound!Hope your throwing up buildings over there and taking the whole experience in. No real news over here, got an offer to go professional with the ol table tennis...bit embarassing really after such a short time but whatever!
Thats really it...I'm off to get a nice salty bag of chips soaked in vinegar now..might get a nice batter sausage as well!!!
All the best,
Aaron
good luck with the construction
Hi Joe,
great to see photos and read about all that's going on over there. Would love to hear from you if you get a chance to email or add to the blog. We're all fine but we miss you, of course! Pity our phone call got cut short the other day, haven't been able to get through to you since. Brígh in the middle of all the cao application stuff so you can imagine the stress and strain that goes on here at the moment. If you were here, you'd best steer clear of the blonde monstress. Dad went to physiotherapist today and she thought his leg was a little better. Test for that coming up soon with neurologist. Niamh has scan tomorrow, I am going to go with her and see how the babies are doing. They are moving around a lot and she is finding it hard to sleep. Kelly is... Kelly! Are you behaving yourself? Eating well? Don't drink too much coca-cola just because it's cheap. That stuff is bad for your teeth.
Anyway, love you to bits, stay well, work hard and have fun,
Lots & lots of love, Mam
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