The 2010 Commonwealth Games starts tomorrow 4th of October. I have checked out when we will be able to watch the games on the t.v here and coverage for us in Australia starts from 12.00pm tomorrow lunchtime on channel 10; wherever you are in the world check out when you will be able to see the opening ceromony, it will be an amazing event to watch as 71 countries march around the Jawaharlal Nehru Staduim in New Delhi to signify the start of the games! In Australia you can watch the opening ceromony tonight on channel 10 it starts at 11.00pm, if you can stay awake! Nat has put some interesting facts up in his section at the top of our blog and I was really surprised to read that the games had only be going since 1930.
As the games are being held in Delhi I thought It would be interesting to tell you a few things about this fascinating city. Delhi is the largest city by area and the second large
st city in India by population with more than 12 million people living there! Delhi or New Delhi is the capital of India and is located on the banks of the River Yamuna, which I found out runs past the Taj Mahal in Agra too! When I looked on a map I noticed that Delhi is in Northern India and I found out that it borders the Indian states of Uttar Pardesh on the East and Haryana on the West, North and South. During the British Raj it was a district of the Punjab Province and in the past it has been part of the larger Punjab region. Two main features of the geography of Delhi are the Yamuna flood plain and the Delhi Ridge, these flood plains have very good soil suitable for growing crops but they have lots of floods which make it hard for the people that live there to farm the land.
The Climate in Delhi is sub-tropical, their summer is from April to October and is very hot and long with the monsoon season coming at the end of June. They have a winter in Delhi but it is very mild and they get alot of fog in January. People travel around Delhi on bicycles, tuc tucs, rickshaws and taxis, it is a very busy city with everyone fighting for a place on the roads to get to their destination in the quickest possible way and there is always lots of horns being blown! and you will always see cows in the streets! These are sacred animals and are allowed to wander around where ever they want to!!My mum used to go to Delhi alot and she told me that the people that lived there were always very friendly and helpful, I did a bit more research and this is what I found out about t
he people of Delhi... that just like the rest of India the people in Delhi treat their guests with great honor, respect and kindness, that 60% of the people that live in Delhi come from different parts of the country as well as the world, they are multi linguistic and multi cultural and you will often see Hindus going to the gurdwa
ras of the Sikhs and Sikhs going to the dargahs of the Muslims, it's very fair to say that the people in New Delhi live in harmony and co-exist peacefully with one another. One of the most commendable qualities of Delhi people is that they take life as it comes and do not miss any opportunity to celebrate and have fun, infact they love to eat and to celebrate for all occasions such as marriage, festivals and New Year, and you can just imagine how they will be enjoying the atmosphere of the Commonwealth games and how kind they will be to all the Athelets that will be competeting; I hope many of them will be able to watch in the venues around the city!!We were lucky enough to get an update from Delhi from Leigh Skinner, who is competing for Australia in the weighlifting and he told his family that they had all arrived safely and were settling into the Athelets village very well, and that he was just heading to the Athelets restaurant for some breakfast then to training. He said that the facilities were really good and that they were all being very well looked after. His event starts on the 12th October so look out for him and all the other Australian athelets that are with him, good luck Leigh we will be cheering for you!
Thats it from me for now! let me know if you would like to post something up on the blog or if you something you would like me to talk about?
Lots of love Katexx
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1 comment:
Hello Kate
I enjoyed reading yours and Nat's blog.
I have heard on the news that they are closing the schools in Delhi during the games so that the roads are less busy!
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