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Hi! We are Rachael, Sam, Emma, Lucy, and Daisy all living New Delhi. This is a blog for the ‘Delhi Darlings’, who are staying in Delhi for the first few months of 2008, with input from each gapper, do
Today we went to Old Delhi, all ten of us Delhi Darlings and Debbie!
Took the Metro from Connaught Place to Old Delhi,
the Metro is amazing! It’s clean, new, and more efficient than the
London underground. And so you step from this modern haven into the
streets of Old Delhi, and the contrast is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
We started off at the Red Fort – absolutely
stunning, it was a beautiful day too so the red sandstone looked
amazing.
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The day before our orientation, we received a mysterious note from
Debbie, our GapGuru local coordinator and point of contact in Delhi.
It split us into teams- Lucy and Sam vs Rachael and Daisy. We had to
decipher the clues in order to find our way to the first meeting place.
After some bemused looks and scratching of heads, we used our eternally
useful guidebooks provided by GapGuru, the internet, and an A-Z to
conclude that we were to meet at the President’s House.
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Rachael, 21, has just finished studying psychology at Cardiff University and came to Delhi to volunteer and help autistic children in Delhi, after working as a classroom assistant at a special needs school in Reading.
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Volunteer Teaching With Autistic Children, New Delhi
Sam, 22,
also studied psychology, at Somerville College, Oxford, before doing
research for a year at Bangor University and then working in the
community with people with mental illness in Manchester, and is also
volunteering at the
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