37th

Today I have been got by Oxfam volunteers. 800 rs feels reasonable after so long walking past all of these people begging on the street and not giving anything. I feel like I never know the right ones to help. It was weird though because after I'd given them my money I received a call from the same number I'd got asking me to meet them (I'd said I would do it yesterday, and didn't have my card on me then) which hung up as soon as I'd answered. I then got a text asking me if I had Facebook. I asked if it was for personal or Oxfam and thankfully he replied personal. Friends are made very quickly here, I only spoke to this guy for two minutes.

36th

As aforementioned it was incredibly hard to get to sleep at night, however I managed an hour or two before we woke at 3.40 to get Annu's cab to the airport. She had had no sleep. We did one last check and went downstairs to find the cab was not there, so I had to wake the sleeping receptionist up and have him make a phone call. The guy drove extra quick and waited at the terminal while we said goodbye. Fortunately I wasn't allowed into the terminal building so we couldn't draw this out too much. I was glad of this because I was getting pretty sad at the idea of losing Annu and being alone again.
On the way back the guy told me his name was Lucky and we had a good chat about cricket and other Indian-English connections. He took me for chai at his favourite chai-wallah's, mainly to cheer me up I think. We were back in Paharganj within an hour of leaving it. No mean feat. I then couldn't get to sleep as I'd been up so long, so getting up for work was a bit of a chore. When I got in though the sun was shining and everyone was in a good mood so it felt nice to be there.
That evening there was the opening of an exhibition for the Bonjour India Festival (an Indo-French cultural celebration). The work is good, the photography of Michel Kirch being my preference. Its amazing being automatically invited to all these events because I work here. And the free food is always good!

Third day continued

As I said earlier, I got up very late today and, as such, didn't have many hours of day light in which to explore. I went back to Connaught place and had some amazing chilli sweet corn and then rode the metro to JLN stadium to see how close it was to the Habitat Centre. Not very is the answer. I bought the Delhi equivalent of an oyster card which costs all of a pound and comes with 50p on it. This is roughly enough to do five quite long trips.
On my walk back to Jor Bagh metro I went back into Lodi gardens to look at the mosque and have a read. It really is beautiful. I wish I could upload photos on this thing but they'll have to come later.
It feels like its heating up but as nice as this is I can't imagine being in the heat on the metro when it is as packed as it was today. Jesus, I thought the tube was bad. The carriages are bigger so more people are onboard and there isn't really a concept of 'full'. I would have taken a photo but I couldn't move my arms from my side.