It's day 3 in Oddanchatram and we're settling in to a very nice slack sleepy lifestyle. :p We have nice mess aunties who secretly sneak us yummy food to fatten us up (like this morning we got cornflakes and milk JUST for us!!) and the homecooked south india food here is YUMMY. My meals are the highlight of each day these days. ODC is pretty much like Vellore- just as hot and the outside is similar just that everything is slightly more backward..all the signs are suddenly in Tamil and I have to condition myself to reading them- even thought they are mostly english words spelt out in tamil. The transportation links here are pretty bad though and we're finding it difficult organising weekend trips out- but hey! we're still going anyways!!
The hospital itself is waay smaller than CMC and the patient load is much lower and I'm getting rather bored in clinics and wards..but at least it's just a week and a half left.. :) We got pretty good teaching at rounds today though, and there are supposedly daily evening post-grad teachings tt are supp to be pretty good- but they've been cancelled the past 2 evenings- so we've gone out to explore the numerous tea bars and ice cream stalls by the road. :)
Well, tmr Jeremy and I are off to the village 10km away for clinics and home visits- I hope tt'll be interesting- will bring my cam along. :)
Joey and me are sharing a double room in the women's hostel- it's nice and cosy just like back in hall..but I had to get used to the shared toilets and bathrooms and the lack of air con after Bergen house has spoilt me soo..also have to wash clothes by hand now :( And I'm very sad cos my prettiest new salwar just ran yesterday :( Sad sad sad!! We had several blackouts yesterday- one at night lasting about 20 min and it got sooo hot without the fan, we couldn't sleep, and lit up candles and read books by it. :p There was another one this morning when we woke up which meant I couldn't use my heating coil to boil water for bathing and couldn't use the iron!! pout.