We booked a night train from Jaipur to Udaipur in a sleeper car - 2nd class / no AC which was 10 hours long. Each car had 8 people - which ours was all men. We were a little nervous I think of how this part of the journey would go. When the morning arrived and we still had another 2 hours of travel we changed the car from sleeper bunks to a seating arrangement - four on each bench facing each other. This is where I met Samual, a man from Nigeria studing to be a dentist in Delhi and was traveling with his pastor and some others to a wedding. I think I was still struggling heavily with seeing so much poverty up close and personal. I was and still do feel a bit helpless and frustrated and want to know how to make things better. Speaking with Samual about the problems in Nigeria, India and around the world was enlightening, and he reminded me that Rome was not built in a day. The conversation is much too detailed to list here, but I was thankful for our exchange in words.
