Journal 9-30-2010
I had a little trouble sleeping last night because my nose was running and constantly needed to blow it. I gave up and got up at 7:00 even though I was still tired. I showered and got packed up to leave ICSA for the second time.
I tried to leave behind as much stuff as I could.
Our train didn’t leave from Central Station until about 11:00. We had our first experience with sleeper class train cars. They are pretty awesome; it would be really fun to travel over night on one… just another reason to be excited for travel break!
The train ride took us through some really beautiful parts of Tamil Nadu.
The land in this part of Tamil Nadu is much more open and green than the areas around Chennai. It is beautiful and lush out here.
(Here is a picture of me! You can see my beard progress but not the front part because it is blonde.)
We made it to Katpadi (our station) without incident. After about 10 minutes of slightly confused waiting a car from the hospital pulled up. We got in and a nice man drove us to the guesthouse at Karigiri hospital. Once we had made it to the guesthouse we checked in and were left on our own. We decided to go for a walk and explore the hospital campus. It seems to be quite large, at least a couple of square miles. We walked around for a while and got a feel for the layout of the area. We are all really happy to be out of Chennai and into such a beautiful rural place.
So far we haven’t meet any of the hospital staff, other than a guy who seems to be running the guest house kitchen. He made us tea after our walk and dinner a little later on. They also have a TV in the guest house kitchen. This was really strange to see, I don’t think I have seen a TV since our hotel room in Brussels. After dinner I borrowed Leah’s computer and after a lot of setbacks managed to send two emails, one to my parents and Maddie who I haven’t talked to in over a week and one to Claire who I haven’t talked to in almost two weeks (she is on “Excursion” with term in the middle east.
Later in the evening John and I decided to do some exercises. We set the goal of 100 pushups and 200 abdominal centered exercises. This sounded like a cake walk. But it was SOOOO hard… we are really out of shape. We are going running tomorrow morning. Hopefully we can keep up this work out schedule. If we manage to do that I think we will see some major improvement and hopefully we will stop getting tired from walking up stairs. Leah is going to come running with us too.
Tomorrow after breakfast we are going to go find the big shots at the hospital and ask them to show us around. Hopefully there will be someplace where we can get on the internet and do some research to finalize our project ideas so that we can get started. I would also like to go into town to buy some stuff, possibly an internet usb card.
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