Lucia in India? - Yes indeed!!

Namasté!

Lucia with Swedish children living in India and Indian children which parent´s are working at the Swedish Embassy. It was three years since Carl experienced Lucia.

 Carl reading so good and loud. It´s such a great feeling to be a mum standing there and just feeling so MUCH!!!!

Glögg and wonderful Swedish Christmas food! Yammi!!! It tasted good!

Our cook Raju making saffron buns with the children. It was worth the long  journey to get the saffron,seeing these children celebrating "advent".

Ell/My (my daughter) is coming tomorrow morning and Arne (my husband) is coming tomorrow night from the mountains.

I have bought a new heater that was damaged, so I just sent my driver back with it. I need to have it by tomorrow otherwise my daughter will be very cold. It is 24 degrees in the daytime but very cold in our stonehouse in night time. We have heaters in all our bedrooms in night time.

Next week we will celebrate Christmas in Goa, India.

To all of you a

Merry Christmas

& Happy New Year

from me!

See you next year!

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British Dellhi

Namasté!

Welcome to tour "British Delhi"!

I am sure the drivers thought we were all mad! They had a good time!

Lady Pia(Sweden), Lady Mette(Denmark, Lady Meenu(America) and Lady Sarda(Australia)

"Akbar the great!"

Me and Meenu talking about history of British Delhi.

Sarda talking about St James church

Serving cucumber sandwiches, Pim´s and GT 10.00 in the morning!!

Mette takling about Vice Regal Lodge.

Vice Regal Lodge

Happy group having lunch at Oberoi Maidens.

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Seventh City of Delhi Shajahanabad

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The penultimate tour took us to Old Delhi. This is a very busy area and crowded with people, animals, tuk-tuks, shops and religious places.

This man taking a shower just close to the place I met my 7cities group.

 Spices are dried on the roof of the Spice Market

 

Indian man working very hard transporting  these heavy barrels.

Can you see the caos? Can you feel the smell of everything? Can you hear the loud noise?

We went up on a rooftop and saw a mosque that British sold to a Hindu family during British Raj. You could also see Chandni Chowk . ( famous street in Old Delhi)

Great way of getting  around in Old Delhi!

This man is having a bath or....`?

We went to a Jain temple. You had to take off leather things, take off shoes and wash your hands before entering. No women having period were allowed!

Narrow streets! I did "Delhibycycle" here with Lars and Ann from Sweden some weeks ago. They liked it a lot. Fun experince!

As usual lot¨s of colours! Carina Näsholm would proberably love this place!!

This street is famous since the time of Shah Jahan as delhi's gold, silver and jewellery market. You will be amazed to see that the jewellery here is sold by weight rather than by the piece - it seems no great value is placed on the craft of the jewellers themselves.

Old Delhi´s  injured birds are being treated at the Jain Bird Hospital. How cute!

Tour ended outside the Red Fort.

Great group! People from all around the world America, Japan, China, Sweden, Denmark, France, Holland, and UK. So much fun! I have learnt a lot about New Delhi and the history of India. A big thank you to all of you! 

Only one tour left - my tour with three 7cities friends. I am looking forward to that!!

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Indian dog

Namaste´!

This is to all my friends and relatives who likes dogs.

This is a proud Swedish owner of an Indian dog.

Any orders??????

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Mini marathon

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Carl run mini marathon ( arranged by two Swedish ladies). Good fun!

Group no. 1

Group no. 2

Group no. 3

Hot dogs,drinks and chocolate cake!  

Diplomas to all participants!

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First of advent

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Suddenly I realized it was first of advent on Sunday! 

It took me two hours to find four candles!!!! This candle holder, showing Lucia in the middle with her followers,I use every weekend from now on and lit one more candle each Sunday. It´s also very useful when I am trying to explain Lucia for those who hasn´t got a clue what it is. Thank you Carina, Carl´s godmother, for giving this wonderful present when we moved from Sweden!

 

To my surprise I find this candle holder in a shopping mall close to our house. It looks like lingon berries!!!

 Carl and I made ginger cookies and had lot´s of fun. The dough didn´t taste like it does in Sweden but it smelled the same.

  

 A very special ginger cookie man made in India by Carl !!

Our cook also made us some nice saffronbuns. Unfortunate I only had a quarter of a saffronbun left when I decided to take a picture.

I tried to find things that were of red colour.

It was easy to bring all my Christmas decoration at display. This was one of three things I had!

 This time of year I am always thinking of my choir "Kören Nota Bene" in my hometown Örnsköldsvik. Every year at first of advent it´s a concert with a famous Swedish singer .

This term I have join the Aes community choir here in New Delhi. On Friday we are having a consert at school and we are also singing at the AWA mela on Sunday. Hope to see some of my friends there!

Carl is rehearsal Lucia and will have three performances next week at the Swedish embassy.

Hope you enjoyed first of advent!!

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Agamya school - school for underprivliged children

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We arrived in the morning with two of Carl´s friends who were  going to hand over gifts bought from their money they received for their birthday. Since the last time we were here they now have got their third classroom.Two of them are provided with school desks. Our car is in the back of the picture.

 

It was fun to come with all the materials for the children and the school. Everybody felt excitied.

Ravi Kalra with the two donators presenting them for the children in the oldest class.

 

 The children looked very happy receiving presents from this little "angel". Each of the 125 children were given a pencil case filled with a pen, eraser, sharpener and glue.

Many eyes on the donator! In this classroom children are sitting two and two in desks.

Happy child with a new cricket bat in his hands! Maybe a future as a famous Indian cricket player. Who knows? Many of the children

were hats and it´s  23 C degrees.

                     Carl found this home made cricket bat at the school.

All the children from the  youngest class also wanted to take part. 

 All of sudden the Swedish children took command over the class.  Great seeing them! Most of the lessons are taught in English. These children will have an advantage knowing English as adults.

Looking at the children the "new" teachers were doing a good job.

The breaks are among other things the best in a school day.

And this break most have been a very good and special one. It is heart warming to see the girl´s happiness as she is doing high five with Carl.

                          

Rewarded with a Christmas card and a feeling of happiness and joy. What a great thing  to be able to help those in the world that are having a hard time to survive.

              

When leaving, we saw that the children were having fun with their gifts. Such a nice feeling!

As the saying goes:

Being  nice is one of many bridges on the road to happiness

 by  Donna A Favors 

Carl is now at a friend´s house and I am waiting to taste some saffron buns soon. How exciting!! My husband has invited two guests for dinner tonight.

Tomorrow we are playing at the  Dehli golf club where we now are members. To be a member my husband didn´t had to play golf to be picked as a valuable member instead he had a nice cup of tea. It´s important to socialize on the golf course, isn´t it??

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