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It seems we´re really getting into the swing of things now. We haven´t been ripped off for a week! This evening we approached a cycle rickshaw to take us back to the flat, insisted on agreeing a price before we got in. "How much?" I asked. He paused. I smiled. He smiled. He knew we weren´t going to be ripped off easily.

On Sunday Alvaro and I went sightseeing in Delhi, taking in the Red Fort, Chandni Chowk market, Firoz Shah Kotla and the Indhira Ghandi Memorial Museum, each of which was extremely memorable and derserves a blog entry of its own. Despite the intense heat, possibly the hottest day yet, it was a fantastic day and good to finally be able to appreciate some of Delhi´s rich culture and history.

Alvaro and Hannah are organising a partnership between WAM and the Delhi School of Music. Blog about this to follow...

The long awaited monsoon season has finally reached us - if tentatively. Yesterday there was a deluge, accompanied by deafening thunder and even more power cuts. In the evening Gurgaon was stained and eerie yellow from the dying sunlight in the thunder clouds and a faint rainbow lingered in the upper atmosphere. Today was our first bright day, and not quite as hot. Much more European. (There are actually far more exciting things here than the weather, but the weather is one of the few things simple enough to be described succinctly.)

We all have very different experiences of teaching but it seems we´re all finding it a rewarding experience, and satisfying to be offering a style of teaching which our pupils are clearly not used to, and which they appreciate. Some are even adding us as friends on Facebook...

You may remember our earlier blog about the taxi driver on our first day who asked for 300 rupees from us to pay a policeman´s bribe. Well apparently a standard bribe is 50 - 100 rupees so he did quite well out of us.