New Creation Guest House

While I was in Auroville, I stayed at the New Creation Guest House. I loved it! I loved it so much...it was an oasis of calm after spending 3 days in Chennai. It is a guest house, but primarily a school for Tamil kids that have lost one or both parents. You can eat lunch and dinner with the kids, and that was a lot of fun. Except...I don't speak French! Auroville is a universal city but it seemed more heavily populated with French and Tamil speakers! Still, I loved it. The class rooms were in these funny little space age-looking huts. There were also people that lived in New Creation, in some very modern and fancy looking homes -- I can assure you that my guest room did not look like this!


I also met a lovely family from Germany. They were so kind to me...even though we couldn't communicate very well (they only spoke German and very fragmented English) they included me in all of their activities. I had work to do, so I couldn't always join them, but they would knock on my door to ask if I wanted to go, which always made me feel good! They were in India because the daughter had been adopted from an orphanage in Bihar (one of the poorest, most corrupt states in India), and they had returned to Bihar to try to find her mother. It was unsuccessful and emotionally difficult, so they were recuperating in Auroville.