It's a dog eat dog world.

A child beggar scratched me and Lisa several times on our way to this internet cafe, which is a 2 hour bus/metro/autorickshaw travel away from where we are living. Just to give you an idea of some of the experiences you can expect if you venture to Delhi.

There was a huge storm last night, nothing like I've ever seen... thunder and lightning, the power lines blew out and sparks flew from the transformers. Dust and sand blew so strongly that you could not see without being blinded. It reminded me of a desert sand storm. The chairs Lisa and I left on the top balcony blew off and broke. The family is not happy about that. =(.

We've toured many areas of Delhi and I have so many photos to share, but uploading photos here is next to impossible. Fortunately, I am going to be home soon enough where it will take less than a few minutes to upload hundreds.

All over this city, stray dogs are everywhere, people are scrambling and fighting with one another, competing for survival. People have no work, they sit in mud and feces trying to escape the sweltering heat. It's a constant fight for the less privileged amongst us. As I walked through the streets last week, I was horrified when I saw a pack of stray dogs mutilating and tearing the flesh off of another dog, a bigger dog. It was horrible and I felt sick to my stomach. But that's what it's like here. You eat or you're eaten.

We've ceased our volunteer work for the moment out of protest to the project we've been placed at. It's nothing like what we signed up for. We feel cheated and deceived at the moment, and we've been trying to contact the organization for nearly a week with not much luck due to lack of access to internet. Where we work, we go to a government subsidized daycare centre for 1.5-2.5 hours a day where we are left alone with 20 children in a room half the size of my bedroom at home. Obviously, we don't speak the same language as the children, which makes it incredibly difficult to contain their energy in such a small space. We signed up to work in an orphanage, organizing and helping with daily tasks, giving support and providing what we can for an organization and for people who need our help, and this is not what we are doing.