Today is a long one!

I did a short post on day 17 &18, not much writing but photos! I had woken up on Monday (day 17) with a huge headache, the hot nights are taking their toll, waking up to a sweat soaked pillow 3 or 4 times a night and therefore feeling massively dehydrated is difficult. We changed our plan from going into the city to going to InfoCity, grabbing a few bits we needed, a swim, some food…then getting down to some work on the construction site.

Day 18 (Tuesday)

We went further into Gandhinagar today, to sector 7. It is a very odd place, this capital city is not what I would call a typical capital. To me a capital city should emcompass the country or state’s culture, history, should have everything possible to offer its inhabitants, workers and visitors. Gandhinagar seems like another town, it doesn’t have much going on from what we saw.

We went to a craft market at 10am. Unfortunately it was not open yet, a few stalls were just opening, but 80% were still closed.

We went into NID, Paldi, to process films from the previous days. Unfortunately, the chemicals had not arrived to be mixed for us, so – no processing. This day was turning into a fail.

We spend the rest of the afternoon chatting to a photography student – Ishan.

Day 19 (Wednesday)

Today was film-processing, take two. We headed in on the 9.30am bus, and grabbed a cold drink before heading up. There was a beautiful butterfly hopping on and off people, as you can imagine, I grabbed my camera – only to find I had left my memory cards in the room from downloading images. NOT a good start.

We headed up to the photography department, only to be disappointed. The chemicals had still not arrived. We processed the 2 black and white films we had, rather than the eight colours we wanted to do.

We headed back down to the BMW (the campus café!) to get more drinks before the 1pm bus, only to find a dozen or so monkeys jumping around! Hannah passed over her DSLR and she grabbed her Hasselbald.

It was a highlight for the day.

We went back to Gandhinager for a late lunch and to chill out with Adam who has been struggling with the trip. I did a little shooting for my project out here, but am not happy with it, and I am running out of time.

Day 20 (Thursday)

I woke up feeling horrible today. So Hannah has gone to Paldi with Adam and I have hung back, another morning with a headache , stomach ache and feeling utterly terrible. I am getting very frustrated with waking up feeling ill. There never seems to be a day where either Hannah or I are not feeling ill one way or another, and it’s draining. It is almost 1pm and I do not know whether I will go to Paldi on the 2pm bus yet. I still feel rubbish. It is days like today where I just want to go home.  To feel normal again… 

I cannot process the few photos taken recently - The files type from Hannah's camera does not seem to work. More photos later I hope!

C xxx