Egham MS Honors Choir - AMIS Festival in Delhi 2012

"Today was the last day of our journey, after waking up at 6:45 am and making sure everything was packed up, I woke up "the sleeping Princess" (my roommate Szymon) at 7:15. After that we ate breakfast and were ready to go. However, the bus that was meant to pick us up did not come. We took a taxi to school so that we would not be late (we later learned that the bus was not meant to pick us up).

We were dropped off at one of the main gates of the AES. Soon Mrs Walters and Mr Roach came in the teachers' van. Then we set off for the airport. At the airport, after checking our luggage, Mr Roach tried to pick the nose of a three-meter tall iron statue of an elephant. After going through security we soon learned that there was no currency exchange after it. Due to that fact everyone wanted to spend all their Rupees in the shops at the airport because there was a very small chance of us being able to exchange Rupees back in England. After having a pretty big shopping spree we got back to our meeting point and headed for our gate.

Then we got on board our airplane and flew off to England ending this fantastic adventure. During the trip to India we had a chance to see many different aspects of the country. We saw the Impressive Taj Mahal as well as the Delhi Haat market where we bought most of our souvenirs, but most importantly we met new people and had fun while practicing and performing 9 songs in different languages, in front of a big audience in a great music festival!

Next year's AMIS festival is planned to be in Beijing. I hope it will be equally as brilliant as this festival, or even better, but most of all I hope all the participants will have even more fun."

Excerpt from a student diary, Day 6 Sunday, January 22, 2012 - courtesy of Tadeusz