Looking back on the past 3 weeks it is hard to imagine where all the time has gone!! I know it is very cliche to say such things after a long period of an other than usual life event, but I really do know where all the time has gone! Hopefully looking back on this blog will help myself and others down the road see that our time here was very well spent!
These past few days have been pretty relaxing. We spent Tuesday helping out Pallium with some data-entry work at their main office. They are just getting to electronic health records and are all very excited about learning more about them! However, they patients' entire record is not completely electronic and is just limited to some general demographic data. I think the big reason for this is not to comprehensively track different pathologies, but rather in order for Pallium to be able to give solid numbers to the people that give them funding from other parts of the world.
Yesterday (Wednesday) we traveled to a beutiful beach in the Kovolam area of Kerrala. It was in the same general vicinity fo the beach we went to a couple weeks ago, but in more of a touristy area. There were more European people and a plethora of restaurants, shops, and people selling fruits soaked in rum! We spent most of the day out there dodging waves, laying out, and taking a bunch of pictures. We got back to the hotel last night around 7 PM and head dinner with the Pallium staff around 8.
We had all of our presentations today (Thursday) over topics of our choice. Mine was on the various cousines available here in India (of course!) and Ryanne's was over arranged marriages. Both were great topics and were found as very interesting by the rest of the group!
We received lamps as goodbye gifts from Pallium today and we made them a thank you video on iMovie. I will be posting it to Facebook when we return to the US and actually have some semi-decent internet.
It is about 6 PM right now and Ryanne and I are just starting our packing! I handed out 10 pounds to candy to children during my home visits so that is 10 pounds less I will be traveling with! Although I did buy quite a few gifts for friends and family....
We are going out for dinner and drinks tonight at 7:30 at a restuarant that is the 7th floor of a hotel with a large rooftop area! Should be a good time! Our bus will be departing at 1 AM for the airport and our flight is at 4 or so I think....not sure if Ryanne will write anything before we leave but this is my final post!
Thanks for all your kind words of support and many prayers of safety! We both talked about our family and friends back home pretty much nonstop throughout our stay and thought this would be a great way to fill everyone in on what was going on with us!
Thanks for sticking with us over these past 3 weeks!
These past few days have been pretty relaxing. We spent Tuesday helping out Pallium with some data-entry work at their main office. They are just getting to electronic health records and are all very excited about learning more about them! However, they patients' entire record is not completely electronic and is just limited to some general demographic data. I think the big reason for this is not to comprehensively track different pathologies, but rather in order for Pallium to be able to give solid numbers to the people that give them funding from other parts of the world.
Yesterday (Wednesday) we traveled to a beutiful beach in the Kovolam area of Kerrala. It was in the same general vicinity fo the beach we went to a couple weeks ago, but in more of a touristy area. There were more European people and a plethora of restaurants, shops, and people selling fruits soaked in rum! We spent most of the day out there dodging waves, laying out, and taking a bunch of pictures. We got back to the hotel last night around 7 PM and head dinner with the Pallium staff around 8.
We had all of our presentations today (Thursday) over topics of our choice. Mine was on the various cousines available here in India (of course!) and Ryanne's was over arranged marriages. Both were great topics and were found as very interesting by the rest of the group!
We received lamps as goodbye gifts from Pallium today and we made them a thank you video on iMovie. I will be posting it to Facebook when we return to the US and actually have some semi-decent internet.
It is about 6 PM right now and Ryanne and I are just starting our packing! I handed out 10 pounds to candy to children during my home visits so that is 10 pounds less I will be traveling with! Although I did buy quite a few gifts for friends and family....
We are going out for dinner and drinks tonight at 7:30 at a restuarant that is the 7th floor of a hotel with a large rooftop area! Should be a good time! Our bus will be departing at 1 AM for the airport and our flight is at 4 or so I think....not sure if Ryanne will write anything before we leave but this is my final post!
Thanks for all your kind words of support and many prayers of safety! We both talked about our family and friends back home pretty much nonstop throughout our stay and thought this would be a great way to fill everyone in on what was going on with us!
Sunset at the beach! I made this picture the background on my phone!
A picture of the barracuda I shared with a few friends for lunch! It was delicious!
One of the temples at the tip of India.
Ryanne and I at a fort near the tip of India.
One of the temples had this as their source of fire control!
Ryanne at the beach!
One of the Gods that looked over India.
A temple near the tip of India.
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