End of Course, Part Two

And more parties...

With Rana and my sponsor student, Gangs

At Jeff's house: Me, Prashant, Jazna, Alex, Jeff, the Wahis and Jose

At Dave and Vanessa's ANZAC Day party...

Me and Ruslan

With my Sri Lankan buds, Ranjith and Lanka.

Group photo: Tim, Ruslan, me, Dave, Shamim, Alex, Jeff, Siti, Ranjith and Michael

Group photo #2: Alex, Dave, Ranjith, me, Jeff, Lanka and Jose

And some other last moments in and around Wellington:

Our last official social function...cocktails with the Commandant: Roj, Ruslan, Alim, me, Ashish, Lanka and Siti

Foreign officers gather for a group photo at the final Foreign Student Presentation for Zambia.

Every week the foreign officers got together to play soccer. This turned into the one thing that we always looked forward to and kept us going. We called our team the Firangi Devils (firangi sort of means foreign in Hindi) and I will miss playing with these guys every weekend.

Firangi Devil team photo

Scrimmage with the Indian officers.

Battle scars; I'm still rehabilitating my elbow and wrist.

And lastly, I'd like to express my thanks to my faithful staff, Mary and Pinto. They constantly made my life in India easier and I will miss their hard work and attentiveness. I hope they continue to work for the Air Force/Navy house long into the future.

Next stop, Graduation...