Attack of the Volunteers or 'Ode to Amy'

So just over am month ago a new volunteer arrived at our apartment. Her name was Amy (it still is, ut shes left now so the past tence felt appropriate) and she was/is lovely. And now she's gone and I've somehow completely neglected to mention her at all. Now we have 3 brand new volunteers living with us (one with with us and two sleeping on matresses accross the street but doing everything else in our apartment) and it seems wrong to mention them and not Amy.

So, Amy... Lu described Amy as a little bit of all of us rolled into one person and it was completely true! She was clean! She loves Buffy and The Office! She will spend hours watching stupid clips on YouTube! She was basically the greatest person ever. With Amy we actually bothered leaving the house to see some sites. When you're somewhere for so long its easy to put off doing touristy stuff until later but because Amy was only there for a month she wanted to do it all right then. Which was awesome. So I got to see 'downtown' Mumbai which is beautiful and exotic: lots of wide open streets, palm trees and European style architecture. We saw Victoria Terminus (got a little Slumdog flashback) and the Prince of Wales Museum (now called something else that I can't spell). We shopped along Colaba Causeway and had lunch at Leopolds. That was really odd, when the terrorist attacks happened everybody who was sitting downstairs in in Leopolds got shot, and now it looks like nothing ever happened. We got the boat over to Elephanta Island and saw some caves and someone asked us to be in a Bollywood movie. It was all very awesome!

But then she left and we thought we had a dull month ahead of us until we left, but its turns out we haven't. This weekend out little flat has been invaded by boys. 3 boys! I've only just met them but they seem nice so far. Vikki and I have moved out of the sittingroom and into the bedroom so we can have an all girl space and Lu has bravely offered to share the sitting room space with one of the boys. We've also had a new pile of volunteers show up at the school so we're very overrun at the moment, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself!