Welcome to India

So the first 24 hours in a country are always quite enlightening. Here are some things I've learned:

1. Always have the address of the place you are trying to go. (We may not have written down our hotel address so it took our taxi driver a long time to find it and we got here at about 1:30am last night.)
2. Even when you have the address of the place you're trying to go, there's no guarantee anyone knows what the address means. (We may have been a bit late to church today, but we did finally find it.)
3. When people say that everyone in India speaks English, they're lying. (And when people do speak English, it often doesn't sound like it.)
4. "Mild" here doesn't mean the same thing it does when you're ordering Indian food in America.
5. We will be lucky if we're never involved in a transportation accident. (There's pretty much only one rule in Delhi traffic - do whatever you want.)
6. I'm SO grateful Carl's here. I would not like being here by myself. (Carl is my classmate that is working at ekgaon with me.)
7. Jet lag between countries that have an 11 hour and 30 minute time difference is a nightmare. (And yeah, I know... 30 minutes?!? Who decided that?)
8. The Church has the same spirit everywhere. And I love it.
9. There are a lot of things I take for granted in my life.
10. This is going to be an awesome experience.

So as you can tell, I've already learned a lot. :-) I'm really excited to be here and get to work. Carl and I have a lot to do and it's going to be great!