Adventure 2019

On Friday, we had the absolute privilege of visiting an Indian family’s home for dinner. To be invited into the home of a stranger and to see them going above and beyond in welcoming us to their homes merely because we were part of the worldwide sisterhood of Girlguiding truly demonstrated to us how lucky we are to be Guides and Rangers. In our family, the women told us that they had spent almost 3 hours preparing our dinner. To see such selflessness and generosity from strangers made us feel so honoured, and is something I will definitely aspire to in the future. Prior to our meal, we were welcomed into the family home and made to feel at home sitting in the “hall” (the word used to refer to the lounge). After spending some time getting to know the three members of the family, Kirti then went to feed the family cow. She invited us along with her, and we then met their family calf and a large group of adult cows. It was fascinating to see the way in which cows are perceived as sac

For the Indian family visit I was in a group with Chloe, Amaya and Lily. Our group was the most exciting because we found out we were the only group getting there by car. When everyone got into their saris and punjabis, they all started to leave but our group left last, which was fine because we got to see everyone leave.  Sandip and his daughter came to pick us up. Once we got to their house, the family was there and we took our shoes off and went in. They were interested in our  lifestyle in England. We started talking about all of the paintings on the walls and found out that Sandip had painted all of them around the house. They wanted to show us around the house so off we went. They have a big house with load of stairs and walking up them with a sari is the worst. First we went through the living room that was connected to the kitchen and the dining room.      – lily Their house was more tall than large, but still equally beautiful and still very big (they had two floors and a

On Friday evening at Sangam  we were all so excited that we would be going to an Indian family home. None of us knew what to expect. As we got in our rickshaws, my group was the the first to go leaving at 5:00 (I was with Helen and Millie). When we arrived, we were taken to the 12th floor of  a block of flats. As our elevator door opened, we saw bright faces smiling at us. We were welcomed in so humbly and they gave  us the best onion bhajjis to eat - Neena’s family were so nice. As the day went on I got to know their 15 year old daughter a lot better and we even went up on their balcony and watched the sun set. Later,  it was time for dinner and I was so exited; when we walked out there was the prettiest rangoli on the floor. We sat on the floor and they served us the best food: daal, rice, naan and lots more- they even gave us a sweet for the end. Not knowing what it was I put it all in at once and it was very interesting 😝😕😂. After our amazing dinner,  we had another good ol

On Friday we received an invitation to visit an Indian family.  In my group we there was Eva, Edda and myself (Katherine). We got dressed up nicely and travelled to their home by rickshaw! It took us about 20 minutes to get  there and once we had arrived we had to walk up all the way up to the 6th level because we couldn’t figure out how to use the lift. About 10 minutes later we made it up and were warmly welcomed into their home. We talked about their family and jobs and what they like doing. Some of us bought a  picture of our family to show them and talked about our hobbies and what our school is like; the conversation kept going and we had such fun! We were all starting to get hungry so Smita (the lady who was hosting us) started to make dinner. The dinner was very nice but some of it I found too spicy 😂 They didn’t eat with us as they eat after 9:00 but the dad decided to join us. We ate with our hands which was … different but we embraced it and it was a new experience. Afte

Near to 6:30 pm Annabel,Maddy,Evie and I all gathered ourselves in the breezeway in our beautiful, colourful saris . A group photo was taken and we quickly hopped on a rickshaw to the lovely family home of Kumkum. On our journey to Kumkum's house we were all chatting away about what we might talk about with our family and what food we might be served , we also took a cheeky selfie in the rickshaw. We arrived at Kumkum's door and received a very friendly welcome from the entire family. We were seated on their sofa and were served a pink coloured welcome drink; it was an obscure flavour that we had never come across and something we can add to our long list of things tried in India. During our conversations we found out that Kumkum used to work at Sangam and that she had trained all the hospitality staff. From this moment onwards we all really looked forward to our dinner as we knew the food would be even better than Sangam! Dinner was served and it definitely met our expectat

The final day of our adventure has been long and we have finally made it to Heathrow and are now in the coach on the way back.  Blogs are also about to be updated, enjoy !