Title: Jen does Delhi with VSO (
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The End of an Era...Adieu! - 06/Jan/2011 16:27 - 5082 days ago
I've held back on my last post as I didn't want to jump in when the first two weeks back have been manic. It's been a bit weird ...
Lost Weekend: Finishing up in Delhi - 04/Dec/2010 15:59 - 5115 days ago
Ok so it wasn't a lost weekend but where did it go? In fact the last 4 weeks just went. In training they tell you the last month...
Tourist India - 20/Nov/2010 10:42 - 5129 days ago
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How very Vipassana - 12/Nov/2010 09:51 - 5137 days ago
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Fever. In the morning, fever all through the night… - 08/Nov/2010 13:21 - 5141 days ago
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Let the Games commence… - 17/Oct/2010 11:04 - 5163 days ago
I missed out on my swimming ticket due to a rescheduling of theCoimbatore interpreter training. I’d had a few emails whilst I ...
Coimbatore - Interpreter Training Course Number 3 - 13/Oct/2010 08:00 - 5167 days ago
There are always some ups and downs in the first few days of the interpreter training. You rock up in a strange new town, unpack...
10 Down, 2 to go - 07/Oct/2010 10:50 - 5173 days ago
As is usual on the old blog, I feel the urge to reflect on what has happened and what the coming months will bring. A VSO placem...
All Aboard... - 04/Oct/2010 10:30 - 5176 days ago
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Bodhgaya: Finding some peace - 23/Sep/2010 12:22 - 5187 days ago
After the delivery of the Kolkata interpreter training over 9 days including two weekends it was time for some R&R. I had on...
Round 2: Interpreter Training in Kolkata - 17/Sep/2010 10:36 - 5193 days ago
The first course was in Delhi and was our tester. This was Kolkata and this was for real. We had our Deaf trainer to lead the co...
Dharamsala and The Dalai Lama - 07/Sep/2010 10:18 - 5203 days ago
After the nine days ofinterpreter training in Delhiit was time for a break. I went straight to the hills toDharamsala, the site ...
Training the Interpreter Trainers - 25/Aug/2010 08:50 - 5216 days ago
We just completed the first interpreter training program for bilinguals i.e. people already fluent in ISL (Indian Sign Language)...
Cleaned Out - 19/Aug/2010 16:43 - 5222 days ago
One plus of living in India is having hired help. You feel slightly embarrassed you’re paying someone the equivalent of £15 a...
A Million Dollar Success - 15/Aug/2010 12:04 - 5226 days ago
You may have seen myTwitteror Facebook updates already in which case you’d know: I have had a pretty damn good week.The main a...
Blogpost for VSO: My Story So Far - 12/Aug/2010 11:57 - 5229 days ago
So I've been at it again: blogging for others, this time forVSO.They asked me to write of my experience so far. Now it's been a ...
The Good Life– Urban Vs Rural - 07/Aug/2010 19:14 - 5234 days ago
It was off to the farmland scrubs ofRajasthanlast weekend where I visited afriend in her VSO placement. We’ve often compared p...
The Indian Sign Language Academy - A Work Update - 26/Jul/2010 15:18 - 5246 days ago
Back in February the Finance Minister announced in his budget funding for a Sign Language academy. The Deaf Way Foundation Direc...
Single, White, Female - 21/Jul/2010 15:37 - 5251 days ago
Solo?Yes solo.Just one?Yes just one.No man?No man.On average I had this conversation twice a day whilst away in Malaysia. It’s...
India Vs The Rest of the World - 20/Jul/2010 15:03 - 5252 days ago
I took my credit card, a budget from my savings and for my birthday did what I always do: took off somewhere tropical to do some...
Cleared out by The Games - 28/Jun/2010 07:11 - 5274 days ago
With theCommonwealth Gamesonly 98 days away there have been reports that the government is up to no good again. In the year lead...
Manali and Mountains - 23/Jun/2010 05:59 - 5279 days ago
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Wot choo looking at? - 08/Jun/2010 11:30 - 5294 days ago
So I’m more used to the auto drivers now. I even have a bit of a laugh with them when negotiating in Hindi. I still occasional...
Lingua Franca - 31/May/2010 04:56 - 5302 days ago
Learning two languages has been a challenge and one fraught with usual faux pas. In Hindi if you don’t roll your R enough in K...
Video Killed the Radio Star - 28/May/2010 09:46 - 5305 days ago
Not content with my own You Tube channel:www.youtube.com/jenpenwenI've got in on VSO-UK's. See the clip of a few volunteers talk...
The Heat is on... - 20/May/2010 18:03 - 5313 days ago
I didn’t think it could get much worse: 47 degrees, trying to stay indoors anytime between 10 and 6, going for a run only afte...
Indian Interpreter Idol: The Search is on - 12/May/2010 09:21 - 5321 days ago
Someone recently made a comment about my blog that it was personal and not about work. It is true. There have only been a few re...
It's The Final Countdown - 03/May/2010 10:06 - 5330 days ago
On my way to the doctors last Friday I was unceremoniously dumped out of my auto at the bottom of Sansad Marg. I didn’t know t...
A Recipe for Successful Weight Loss - 29/Apr/2010 16:57 - 5334 days ago
IngredientsSome street food such asChole Kulchaor ChickenMomosA lassiA reduced intake of alcoholGreatly increased intake of wate...
A Recipe for Successful Weight Gain - 21/Apr/2010 17:12 - 5342 days ago
Weight yoyo-ing is apparently usual in Delhi due to the change in temperature between winter and summer. Mine may have been a li...
Easter in Varanasi– Bodies, bulls and bacteria - 08/Apr/2010 05:16 - 5355 days ago
In Delhi they say travel before April when it really hots up in India. Two other volunteers, B and N, and I decided on a last tr...
Get your coat love, you’ve been pulled! – The Indian Traffic Cops - 31/Mar/2010 16:25 - 5363 days ago
I was working at the weekend. Shocked at getting up at 4am on a Sunday, I got the train to Agra for a Deaf event. My colleague a...
The Volunteer and the Balloon Seller - 16/Mar/2010 09:17 - 5378 days ago
Recently a fellow volunteer told me this story which made me laugh. She doesn’t have a blog so I’m putting up here:In Delhi ...
Queuing at the Delhi Counter Part II - A Legal Alien in New Delhi - 26/Feb/2010 10:13 - 5396 days ago
The visa process is painful. The expat forums are full of queries and no-one knows what the processes are or what the different ...
Travels, Touts and Trauma - 21/Feb/2010 10:52 - 5401 days ago
After my recent conference my guest speaker and friend, over from the UK, stayed on for a tour of Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. He has...
Would the real ASLI please stand up? - 19/Feb/2010 07:32 - 5403 days ago
Seven weeks into my placement and we had a conference for the Indian ASLI. Coincidentally‘asli’ in Hindi means ‘real’. O...
The Three Month Meltdown? - 10/Feb/2010 09:45 - 5412 days ago
A few days ago, I crossed the infamous three month mark. Infamous in VSO terms and amongst volunteers here. It’s sink or swim ...
Queuing at the Delhi Counter - 04/Feb/2010 18:37 - 5418 days ago
This is a tale of Indian bureaucracy and a one-woman crusade to get a parcel through customs duty-free. Our story starts a few d...
We Can Work it Out... - 31/Jan/2010 06:22 - 5422 days ago
I haven’t yet blogged about work yet and I guess it is time that I did as that is what I have come here to do. Although my CEO...
Jaiho Jaipur - 28/Jan/2010 06:03 - 5425 days ago
At the weekend a few of us went on a trip to Jaipur for a break out of the chaos that can be Delhi. We went to a literary f...
Bollywood: Aquafresh on Acid - 20/Jan/2010 20:27 - 5433 days ago
Coming up to three months in India it was about time I went to see my first Bollywood movie. The film everyone is talking about ...
Shut up and Drive - 15/Jan/2010 16:06 - 5438 days ago
(Pic from:http://rickshawchallenge.com/blog/)It’s official, auto drivers have become the bane of my life. I’ve spent three p...
It’s Christmas Time... - 01/Jan/2010 12:54 - 5452 days ago
Most of the festive season has been spent shopping for the new flat. It felt a bit like doing theBoxing Daysales in the UK but i...
Flat hunting: The one with the Broker Wars - 24/Dec/2009 21:09 - 5460 days ago
There’s been mayhem, stress, upsets and danger in the hunt for a flat. It’s been a better drama than an Eastenders Christmas...
On the Road for Deaf Drivers? - 23/Dec/2009 22:31 - 5461 days ago
I was asked to go on short day trip with work. Excited to be on a train out of Delhi, it was a great chance to chat to my collea...
Sign 4 - 19/Dec/2009 18:35 - 5465 days ago
They say try not to see anyone from home in the first few months of your placement as it can make you feel homesick. I didn’t ...
First Day at the Office - 09/Dec/2009 20:59 - 5475 days ago
The flat hunting saga continues but work must carry onas ever. I spent the first two days of this week visiting many flats with ...
Volunteering to Clean up the Yamuna - 05/Dec/2009 20:29 - 5479 days ago
Only two days after attending my first big event in India I got on a bus with 10 or so other volunteers and turned up at the inf...
World Disability Day 2009 - 03/Dec/2009 18:12 - 5481 days ago
Some countries call it the International Day of People with Disabilities. Others the World Disability Day (WDD) as it is named i...
Delhi's Homeless - 27/Nov/2009 21:54 - 5487 days ago
We had a visit organised for tonight to one of the homeless shelters run byAAA, an Action Aid funded project. It was a little di...
Can tech savvy teens affect change in India? - 25/Nov/2009 14:20 - 5489 days ago
I’ve been at a VSO strategy conference all day on the outskirts of Delhi with the aim of helping to shape VSO India’s next t...
Delhi Eat-a-thon - 21/Nov/2009 15:54 - 5493 days ago
I’ve now been in India for two weeks and it’s about time I mentioned food. It is a big topic of conversation between all the...
Market Mayhem - 14/Nov/2009 18:33 - 5500 days ago
Free from the confines of the group with the weekend ahead, I could plan a day out. I feel I get on with everyone here but I fin...
To Beer or not to Beer - 13/Nov/2009 23:29 - 5501 days ago
This afternoon we were told Indian women rarely drink alcohol and they will usually drink soft drinks when out. Drinking is gene...
Back to School - 13/Nov/2009 18:14 - 5501 days ago
We have now had a day of introductions and a further two days of training. This has been Hindi lessons in the morning which are ...
A Wecome to VSO India - 11/Nov/2009 23:20 - 5503 days ago
After language lessons in the morning we were herded into these fantastically old-fashioned taxis. I sat in the front and got to...
Stroll in the Park - 10/Nov/2009 22:45 - 5504 days ago
After a fitful sleep on a brick-hard pillow, all the volunteers that had already arrived met for lunch at the Indian Social Inst...
Arrival and Orientation at the Indian Social Institute - 10/Nov/2009 19:55 - 5504 days ago
We arrived at 2am at Delhi airport to a few beeping cars but it was fairly quiet other than that. I was surprised but then it wa...
T5 and counting... - 09/Nov/2009 19:32 - 5505 days ago
I had two other volunteer’s phone numbers who will be on the same flight. There should have been around 10 of us, some co...
Packing District - 08/Nov/2009 19:28 - 5506 days ago
After a weekend away visiting friends before the chaos of packing, I’ve had a pretty stressful week. I only left myself seven ...
Drinks? I couldn't possibly. - 30/Oct/2009 18:58 - 5515 days ago
So it was potentially my last night of drinking red wine for a while and I managed to get a few in. It was a lovely night and a ...
Bob Geldof's Lost Daughter - 20/Oct/2009 11:33 - 5525 days ago
It's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster at times over the last week. Getting a bit stressed, then realising there's not mu...
Subtitling my Placement - 18/Oct/2009 01:42 - 5527 days ago
Ever since I got the call from VSO offering me a Flip camera I'd been wondering how to make clips accessible for Deaf people. No...
VSO, Web 2.0 and the Social Media Revolution - 12/Oct/2009 22:04 - 5533 days ago
I set up aTwitter accountbefore I left for Asia as I thought this would help me keep in touch whilst I was away either in Asia o...
VSO is go - 10/Oct/2009 21:48 - 5535 days ago
I applied to doVSOafter I saw an advert go out on an Interpreter's e-group. The minute I saw it I knew it was something I'd alwa...
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