We spent three days in Chennai, India.
Chennai used to be known as "Madras" and is the largest and most important city in South India.
Our neighbor, the track coach/Athletic Director, came to us frantically searching for reliable adults with visas for India. Two of his coaches had been denied visas to go with the track team to the meet in India. We have ten-year visas for India and he asked us to go.
We put together sub plans and flew over. We actually spent three days keeping an eye on the track team kids. We made sure they rested, drank lots of water and Gatorade and made it to their events on time. No tourist time! The bus left the hotel at 6:30 in the morning and we got back around 8 or 9 at night.
Chennai used to be known as "Madras" and is the largest and most important city in South India.
Our neighbor, the track coach/Athletic Director, came to us frantically searching for reliable adults with visas for India. Two of his coaches had been denied visas to go with the track team to the meet in India. We have ten-year visas for India and he asked us to go.
We put together sub plans and flew over. We actually spent three days keeping an eye on the track team kids. We made sure they rested, drank lots of water and Gatorade and made it to their events on time. No tourist time! The bus left the hotel at 6:30 in the morning and we got back around 8 or 9 at night.
This is the track field. The building in the back is part of the school buildings.
Athletes ran on grass with painted white lines. The school doesn't actually have a track like you may be used to seeing in the US. They ran around a 200 meter oval. A normal track is 400 meters around. The 3000 meter run was 15 laps!
This is the awards area.
This is the view from our hotel. The buildings are part of the school complex. It was literally across the street, but because of the security walls, we had to take an 8-minute bus ride to get there. The roof of the building that looks beat up is being re-finished to put the tennis courts back on it. The weather is so hot, they only play on them at night. 
You can see the pollution. Straight up SMOG.
