Blogs from Asia - page 13069

March 6 - Tuesday Got up, ate the usual breakfast. Left for school about 7:10 and was about ½ hour early. It was about 20 out (a guess) and very clear. I enjoyed the walk a lot and even look forward to it now. The chairs in the classroom are very hard and very straight up and down. More than 4 hours a day would be torture. Went to the bathroom, and found they were the squat toilets, no western style here and they were reasonably clean (Chinese standards, no ours) Today was my first day in my proper level class. It was very good and I enjoyed it very much. The first teacher was very young, and using a computer on her lectern, and a projector on the ceiling had her entire lesson in Powerpoint ... read more

Dedicated to Jaspreet Laly - RIP!! Day 2 didn't live up to its ideal expectations, as the morning became another waiting game. I had to see my supervising Registrar, who would be coordinating my elective experience at the hospital. After being sent to a few varied locations around the Ramachandra Campus, with copius time available to review my inner sanctum, i finally got to meet the tutor! Her name was Dr. Sujatha, and she seemed very friendly indeed. I was basically told of the prospective routine that i would follow, as part of the General Medicine team. This would involve outpatient visits, Ward rounds, Clinics, Journal clubs, and student teaching sessions. Some insight into Sri Ramachandra Hospital; This was India's first private teaching hospital set up by Shri N.P.V. Ramasamy in 1985. His objective was to ... read more

the tokyo tower has two levels - the special and the normal observatory. the special costs a bit extra, but its at 250m while the normal is only at 150m. guided by advice from dan budny, we decided that we had to go for the special observatory. we got there right about dusk. the elevator made a cracking noise on the way up, but it was only a safety device. its hard to describe how the skyscrape of tokyo looks. tokyo is big; really big. you cant see beyond tokyo. d and i took a lot of pictures and we waited for night. the wave of red lights and fluorescent signs, while the sun flamed into the mountains. it got pretty crowded- apparently we weren't the only ones who thought about coming there at dusk. ... read more

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, this weekend was a bit crazy and I wasn't in my room much except to sleep. We finally have a room with internet connection in it, so I will be updating more frequently from here on out. I'll pretty much be updating you on small things that happen during the week, but mostly the weekend. All I do during the week is teach, and hang out in the office before a nice dinner and bed. Not as thrilling as one would imagine for being in India. But, I'm here to train, not to be a roving reporter; so on to my update! After seeing how crazy the traffic was here, I had to question why I never saw an accident, then it hit me. Quite litterally actually. Well not ... read more

OK OK OK! Jeez! It's been over a week since our last entry and we are hearing about it from everyone! So alright already, here it you go. We finished off last time having partied the night away in Goa. Had we already gone back to Arambol for the weekend? Ok, well we did do that, having worn out the things to do in Panjim and bought a train ticket for the following Monday. Back in Aramol we got up to our usual, you know, laying on the beach, reading books, eating......yeah that about it. We also found a lovely little shop near the top of the road and upstairs, full of interestingly designed clothes, and not the usual street vendor tourist fare. We spent the afternoon chatting with the owner Sudeep, from Nepal, drank chai, ... read more