You know your bangles are too tight when.....

So, now I ma in Dehra Dun. It is a city 3 hours north by train from Delhi or 7. 5 by the bus we took. It is a nice city with a wuiet sduburb like outskirt wher I live (well at least for the week)


A typical day goes as followed.

6:30 I wake up at (for no reason at all) and read 1 million pages in my book until the sun comes up

8:30 Have breakfast at Mrs. Meta. Miss Meta is the lady with whom I live. The house is really big and nice and I have a large room with a private bathroom and a roommate name Alia from Vermont. There are also a few other people from the program in my house including the coordinator so there are plenty of people to play with. Mrs. Meta is married and has a sun named Varon he is in a rock band.

9:30 Hindi Lesson with Mayank who runs the program. Yes it is true I am leaning to read and write Hindi. Apkanan Kiasey? What is your name? Mein Nam Jessica. My Name is Jessica. I even learned to write Rosenberg in Hindi yesterday which is probably the only time the name has ever been written in Hindi in the history of the world. Hindi is somewhat similar to Hebrew so I am catching on quickly- sort of.

11:00 meet with Dr. Nisha Gandi OB/Gyn.. She is great. Everything takes place in one room while I Alia and Austin the others from my group sit in the corner and watch. Basically a patient comes in and sits at the desk. There is a curtain in front of a bed right behind the good doctor. Sometimes there is patient being examined while she is talking to another patient in front to the curtain (which the nurse wipes her hands on) and then maybe there is even a baby being vaccinated. Talk about efficient. The funniest part is that all of these pharmaceutical reps also come tot eh clinic trying to get her to buy there drugs. The look just like the reps in America and you can spot them a mile away. Hopefully there will be a birth while we are here because she lets you come in and watch. Word on the street is that they basically push the baby out of the woman by pushing on her stomach. Average time of birth ~ 15 minutes.


1-4:30 Roam the streets of Dehra Dun. The other day I went to a market and bought some small trinkets-toe rings etc. Today I will be going to a Buddhist temple in town. The craziest thing happened the other day I went into this really nice restaurant and there were two young Buddhist monks sitting there- crazy!! I have been told that the Buddhist monks are actually really wealthy here and that they have nice cars :O)

4:30-5:30 Meet with Perm Nath. He is a natural healer and is teaching us about Reiki and Acupressure. I love his class because it teaches me how to harness the universal energy from the doors of heaven through my skull and siphon it onto my patient’s Chakras through my hands. What else could you ask for in a man? P.S he is 92 and looks like he is 75 he must be doing something right.

6-8 Meet with Dr. Nunda- Homeopathic doctor. His clinic can be slow at times and so I have asked him 1 million questions about what he does. He is also really funny and the cases that do come in are interesting. Yesterday a Sikh man wearing a turban came in. Apparently his son owns a restaurant at OSU called the Taj. During his visit he proceeded to show us how he likes to do his 10 stretches for one hour each day to stretch everything including his veins- interesting.

8-? Have dinner. Mrs. Meta makes some mean Indian food and accept for that act that it is making my teeth sensitive I really like it. Sometimes after dinner we will do an activity like go to town to get ice-cream. Last night I got a cone with chocolate shavings and M and M’s but the guy was very particular and treated cone making like an art form and took 20 minutes hand placing each M& M in a perfect design with a pattern. What a hoot. Anther night we went out to town to a nice restaurant because this girl was leaving. Some of the places in town are quite nice while others are little hole in the walls. Tonight there will be some sort of chant and dancing in the streets (so my style)

Interesting Observations: The doctors do not wear gloves. Lots of children beg for money and food and try to sell you balloons. Getting an outfit made costs 2 dollars (I got fitted for some dresses this morning). My hand is too big for most bangles and I actually started bleeding trying to get one on this morning. The food called a Dosa is massive and their equivalent of a burrito.