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Greetings from India!

Everyone arrived healthy, happy, and exhausted after the 2 days of travel, including a Friday that seemed to go on for days. Actually it did go on for almost 2 days!

When we arrived, after having spent all night awake in a couple different Indian airports, we got settled into our hotel rooms and many of us girls went shopping for local garb. It was very fun and I got some very colorful footage of the shop we were in, which was just a hole in the wall shop filled floor to ceiling with fabric.

Yesterday I went with the women trainers who were talking to a group of working women. It was great to meet the ladies who live in town and to learn a little bit of their experiences in the workplace.

Today I traveled with the youth trainers and got just a tiny bit carsick -- nothing serious, just a mild headache and dizziness. Driving here is a bit different than in the states. It's kind of like riding the Star Tours ride at Disneyland. All you can do is hold on and try and convince your mind that the objects hurdling toward you will not indeed smash you to pieces.

Being at the youth seminar was wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed meeting, interviewing, and filming the college age students in the nearby town where the seminar was held. I especially wish that I could have spent more time getting to know the young women there, of which there were so few. (It was mostly young men who attended.) The ladies were shy but very friendly and warmed up after a little coaxing and some friendly conversation.

Tomorrow I think I will rest up a little bit. Perhaps I will have some time to post some pictures on the blog as well. We'll see. We didn't end up getting the Internet phones, for whatever reason, so I am dialing up from my hotel room (which is wonderful, but slow nonetheless.)

Until then,
Amber