Melissa continues to lie in the foetal position being brought plain bread (Canadian style), cashew biscuits and water from the resident Granny at READ. Denise runs back and forth from the bed to the bathroom, and someone must stay behind from today’s workshop to pack for our return to Chennai. This leaves Jesse and Sasha to facilitate a workshop for about thirty young women at the High School in Andimadam.

This workshop went smoothly, but the two Team members managed to spice things up with a new improv performance, in which Sasha played a crazy scientist looking to cure Jesse of HIV. “Oh… what have we hear,” she said, peering into the microscope (actually a chalk drawing on the school board). Translation was also well done, and the girls participated fully in anonymous questions about HIV, sex, as well as improve (go girls)!

The evening brought more children to the READ Guesthouse door, and the team reminisced, as this is one of our last workshop days in India.