The couple's dinner on Sunday was a huge success. The worship hall was decorated with heart-shaped balloons, streamers, hearts and flowers cut out of construction paper, and candles. We had about 25 couples attend. It was so much fun to see all the ladies dressed up in their beautiful saris. We served a 3-course meal and the couples played some games, and at the end of the evening Katie and I announced the best-dressed winners. After group photos, everyone joined hands and sang a song called "Bind Us Together, Lord." It was great fun.
After spending every waking moment of my entire weekend on this party, though, I was exhausted. So I asked if I could have Monday off, in part to catch up on some sleep and in part to try to get over this cold that's been nagging at me. I already feel better today.
The campus has another American this week. Nikki is a nurse just 2 years out of nursing school from Washington state, where she recently quit her job to come work in India for 6 months. She's already been in India since November, and she's been traveling around from one EHA hospital to another and one community development project to another. She'll just be at Herbertpur Christian Hospital for a week, but it's great to have her here. Not only to have another "familiar face," (all Americans now seem to have familiar faces) but also because she's so knowledgeable since she's been here so long already.
The 3 of us - Katie, Nikki, and I - all walked up to Vikas Negar late this afternoon for some fruit shopping. Oranges are a welcome treat to break up the monotony of the Mess food. The Mess food isn't bad, it's just always the same. There's always rice, there's always roti - India's version of tortillas - and there's always dal, which is like a thick soup composed mostly of beans or peas or lentils of some kind. Every day, for both lunch and dinner. The only thing that ever changes in the kind of dal they serve, but they only have about 3 or 4 different kinds in the rotation. It's decent food, and I wouldn't mind having it one or twice a month, but every meal for 3 weeks is a bit much. I shouldn't complain, since they're only charging me 60 rupees per day for food: about $1.50.
One thing I love and have not gotten tired of is the chi (tea). They make it very sweet here, and you couldn't get a cup of black chi even if you wanted it because they mix cream, sugar, and honey into the entire pot. It's excellent. The hospital has a chi service that comes around twice a day - once in the mid-morning and once in mid-afternoon - so that all the doctors and staff can have their twice daily cup of chi. No one ever misses chi no matter how busy it gets, even if it means having to drink it while seeing a patient.
I'm posted in the Casualty unit all this week. I really like it. The autonomy is so much fun. Sometimes I'm the only one there resembling a doctor, so the nurses look to me to make decisions about the patients who roll in. Fortunately, one of the 2 Casualty nurses is a seasoned veteran, so she has my back and makes sure I don't overlook anything obvious.
Just one more week left in the hospital. Can't believe it's going by so fast.
After spending every waking moment of my entire weekend on this party, though, I was exhausted. So I asked if I could have Monday off, in part to catch up on some sleep and in part to try to get over this cold that's been nagging at me. I already feel better today.
The campus has another American this week. Nikki is a nurse just 2 years out of nursing school from Washington state, where she recently quit her job to come work in India for 6 months. She's already been in India since November, and she's been traveling around from one EHA hospital to another and one community development project to another. She'll just be at Herbertpur Christian Hospital for a week, but it's great to have her here. Not only to have another "familiar face," (all Americans now seem to have familiar faces) but also because she's so knowledgeable since she's been here so long already.
The 3 of us - Katie, Nikki, and I - all walked up to Vikas Negar late this afternoon for some fruit shopping. Oranges are a welcome treat to break up the monotony of the Mess food. The Mess food isn't bad, it's just always the same. There's always rice, there's always roti - India's version of tortillas - and there's always dal, which is like a thick soup composed mostly of beans or peas or lentils of some kind. Every day, for both lunch and dinner. The only thing that ever changes in the kind of dal they serve, but they only have about 3 or 4 different kinds in the rotation. It's decent food, and I wouldn't mind having it one or twice a month, but every meal for 3 weeks is a bit much. I shouldn't complain, since they're only charging me 60 rupees per day for food: about $1.50.
One thing I love and have not gotten tired of is the chi (tea). They make it very sweet here, and you couldn't get a cup of black chi even if you wanted it because they mix cream, sugar, and honey into the entire pot. It's excellent. The hospital has a chi service that comes around twice a day - once in the mid-morning and once in mid-afternoon - so that all the doctors and staff can have their twice daily cup of chi. No one ever misses chi no matter how busy it gets, even if it means having to drink it while seeing a patient.
I'm posted in the Casualty unit all this week. I really like it. The autonomy is so much fun. Sometimes I'm the only one there resembling a doctor, so the nurses look to me to make decisions about the patients who roll in. Fortunately, one of the 2 Casualty nurses is a seasoned veteran, so she has my back and makes sure I don't overlook anything obvious.
Just one more week left in the hospital. Can't believe it's going by so fast.
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