I can hardly believe that July is almost over - time just flies much too fast! We have had almost 2 weeks with no rain - amazing in the middle of monsoon for this to happen - the locals say this has not happened before. Yesterday it started raining - and I must say it felt good (of course yesterday was the first day I didn't bring my umbrella to work :):)). The rains isn't so severe yet but pretty constant. With no rains there are no waterfalls - usually there are hundreds of waterfalls on the hills surrounding Lonavala. Can see the scarring from the waterfalls but no water - and the Lonavala Lake which only fills during the monsoon became almost dry - hard to imagine where the water goes. I am looking forward to finally seeing them - they are quite amazing - at least that is what I hear.
During July I drove down to Pune only once - have basically stayed here in Lonavala. I have been going in the base 5 days a week - providing taxi for 5 gals so that they don't get wet - of course there hasn't been that problem these days but it will be again.
The hall being built on campus is coming along nicely - the dry weather has been a real blessing - the guys can work more easily with the dryer weather. They need to turn the hall over to us by Aug 15th when we will start our preparation for the workshop. Of course it won't be completed by then but enough so that we can use it. So far we have about 300 people registered for the workshop - things will get pretty crazy here - with all the preparation and then the workshop itself. We will all have to really pull together to accomplish this huge task. It will be exciting.
My work is still a little up in the air - I have now started working with Pamela doing some of the accounting projects - I take minutes at pretty much all of the different meetings, in spare time I will be typing up Lis's lecture notes for her, and working on a book with Lis - she will speak into a Dictaphone and I will transcribe it into my computer - that should be quite exciting - since it is the history of YWAM India to a large extent that Lis has been involved in for the past 25 years. My official title is Executive Secretary which is basically a 'catch all' phrase for the various areas that I will be involved with. Basically it will involve keeping the bigger picture in view in the many different areas of the campus activities. I am happy to be here and look forward to the great variety of stuff I will be able to participate in.
In my free time I have been busy knitting - something I really enjoy doing - finally got a bunch of yarn and have been keeping my knitting needles clicking. I have almost finished a baby sweater and a poncho for myself. Then I will be working on an afghan for my living room - this will come in very handy once the cooler weather starts - and i understand it can get quite cold - and with no central heat the afghan will be very nice to have.
That is it for now -
During July I drove down to Pune only once - have basically stayed here in Lonavala. I have been going in the base 5 days a week - providing taxi for 5 gals so that they don't get wet - of course there hasn't been that problem these days but it will be again.
The hall being built on campus is coming along nicely - the dry weather has been a real blessing - the guys can work more easily with the dryer weather. They need to turn the hall over to us by Aug 15th when we will start our preparation for the workshop. Of course it won't be completed by then but enough so that we can use it. So far we have about 300 people registered for the workshop - things will get pretty crazy here - with all the preparation and then the workshop itself. We will all have to really pull together to accomplish this huge task. It will be exciting.
My work is still a little up in the air - I have now started working with Pamela doing some of the accounting projects - I take minutes at pretty much all of the different meetings, in spare time I will be typing up Lis's lecture notes for her, and working on a book with Lis - she will speak into a Dictaphone and I will transcribe it into my computer - that should be quite exciting - since it is the history of YWAM India to a large extent that Lis has been involved in for the past 25 years. My official title is Executive Secretary which is basically a 'catch all' phrase for the various areas that I will be involved with. Basically it will involve keeping the bigger picture in view in the many different areas of the campus activities. I am happy to be here and look forward to the great variety of stuff I will be able to participate in.
In my free time I have been busy knitting - something I really enjoy doing - finally got a bunch of yarn and have been keeping my knitting needles clicking. I have almost finished a baby sweater and a poncho for myself. Then I will be working on an afghan for my living room - this will come in very handy once the cooler weather starts - and i understand it can get quite cold - and with no central heat the afghan will be very nice to have.
That is it for now -
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