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<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 06:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>Day 24  Final Presentation and Creche Graduation</title>
                    <description> My final full day at Aravind Where has 4 weeks gone  Yesterday I presented my final recommendations to Dr. Aravind which went really well. Dr. Aravind seemed genuinely appreciative of my work and our intended 30 minute meeting turned into nearly 2 hours as he engaged me in various discussions around some of my recommendations. Dr. Aravind is certainly one of the more open minded and receptive s</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-142992.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 23  The Home of Ganesh Babu </title>
                    <description> This morning I received an unexpected invitation from Ganesh for Sachi and myself to join his family for dinner that evening. Obviously an invitation I couldnt turn down and even Sachi who was still bemoaning the quantity of food she had consumed over the weekend whilst having her cookery lessons couldnt refuse.  Ganesh turned up at the guest house at 7 with his eldest son Shruti 10 in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-142708.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 21  Meenakshi and Shopping</title>
                    <description> My last weekend in Madurai and what a quiet one its been. I am pretty much the only resident at the guest house at the moment. Scot has now set off to meet up with his wife Heather for a weeks holiday in Thailand. Sachi is spending the weekend with the wife of one of the Doctors whilst he is away at an eye camp  the deal is that Sachi provides the company and in return receives 2 days of</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-142705.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 19  Finding Mariamman Teppakulam</title>
                    <description> Today turned out to be a hard slog the realisation has dawned that Im now into my final week and Ive got loads to get through. I ended up spending the best part of 10 hours ploughing through numerous performance metrics and data sources to try and produce a definitive specification to present to key stakeholders next week for sign off. Today has helped reenforce my early career choice of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-141445.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 18  Off to the Theatre</title>
                    <description> The down side of Scots invitation to observe in Theatre was the fact that the surgeons working day starts at 7am So after an early breakfast and calming down a very concerned Mary who thought I must be ill to be up so early it was off to the hospital.  I assumed there would be some degree of process or rigmarole involved in gaining entry at least somebody who would need to be notified bu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-140789.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 17  Ward Rounds and the Sisters</title>
                    <description>Ward RoundsI knew that this trip would present me with a number of opportunities to enjoy new experiences but what I hadnt anticipated was being presented with the chance to spend time on the clinical side of the organisation.Yesterday evening after work I accompanied Scot Warden the Ophthalmic Surgeon from Boston on his postoperative ward visits as he checked on his cataract patients from</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-140787.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 15  Meera</title>
                    <description>We had discussed whether to opt for the 30 minute elephant ride or to push the boat out and go for the 2 hour package. I had coerced Sachi into the 2 hour deal despite her concerns about not being able to walk for a weekOne of the best decisions I made I think And importantly Sachi more than agreed.We were introduced to our new friend for the next 2 hours a female 30 year old Indian elephant</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/blog-139881.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 15  The Spice Plantation </title>
                    <description>Our guide Malik spent about 90 minutes walking us round a beautiful and very tranquil plantation. I never realised that I could be so interested in different varieties of pepper how many different spices came from the same trees and why different spices are so expensive. I also hadnt realised how ignorant I was on the subject of the few plants I thought I recognised I managed to identify Co</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/blog-139873.html</link>
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                    <title>Periyar Park</title>
                    <description>I set the alarm for 6am as our driver was picking me up at 630 to enable time to pick up Sachi and get to Periyar by 7. Only problem with this was that the monkeys like to wake at around 530 with dawn. What a noise but what an amazing way to start a day. I moved out on to my balcony and simply sat there whilst my ears were assaulted by first the monkeys and then various insect choruses. Dawn cho</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/Periyar-National-Park/blog-139869.html</link>
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                    <title>Thekkady and Kathakali</title>
                    <description>ThekkadyAnother hour and a half saw us arrive at Thekkady. The journey was uneventful with one exception. Our driver had to stop at the Tamil Nadu  Kerala border to complete some paper work and his promise of 5 minutes turned into nearly 20. During this 20 minutes Sachi and I found ourselves under intense scrutiny from the locals they seemed intrigued by us to the point of pressing their faces </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Kerala/blog-139852.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 14  Periyakulam Vision Centre and Theni Hospital</title>
                    <description>The Vision Centre at PeriyakulamAfter an hour or so we thanked our hosts and travelled a couple of miles to the town of Periyakulam to visit one of the Aravind Vision Centres. These small permanent units are an alternate mechanism of community outreach and are designed to provide lowcost primary care but unlike the camps they are able to provide ongoing monitoring due to their fixed location.  Th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-139847.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 14  Visting the Eye Camp in the Village of Kelavadakarai</title>
                    <description>Id really been looking forward to this weekend. A chance to get away from Madurai for a couple of days and see a different side of India. Sachiko and I were off to visit a neighbouring state called Kerala where we were to visit a national wildlife park called Periyar Tiger Reserve in the town of Thekkady.Wanting to maximise my time in India and see as much as possible I had asked Ganesh if he c</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-139840.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 13  End of week 2</title>
                    <description>Its been a fairly uneventful 2nd week at Aravind. Most days have followed a similar pattern Ive been struggling to secure meetings with key individuals from whom I need information and Ive also discovered much to my annoyance that one area that I have been investigating has previously been very comprehensively analysed by staff here and several days of my effort have effectively been wa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-139837.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 9  Monday and back to work</title>
                    <description>Weekends sure pass quickly when they only consist of 1 dayI attended my first formal meeting today. I had been asking Ganesh about the Eye Camp concept at Aravind and how the outreach programme in the community actually functioned  as a result Ganesh arranged for me to sit in on the weekly camp review meeting which takes place every Monday afternoon.The logistics surrounding the outreach prog</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-137670.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 8  Meenakshi Temple</title>
                    <description>A welcome days rest. At last I cam please myself and actually try to see a bit of this remarkable country.Sachiko had agreed to show myself and Scot some of the sights of Madurai to help speed up the orientation process. This morning started with the spectacular Meenakshi Temple.  Meenakshi is a prominent Goddess in Hindu mythology her important is emphasised by the fact that it is unusual for</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-137378.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 8  Taj Garden</title>
                    <description>In order to escape from the noise and madness of Madurai we decided to head up into the hills overlooking the city and visit a hotel called the Taj Garden.  A pleasant little retreat only a few minutes from the city but a million miles away in terms of atmosphere As you climb up the hillside in the autorickshaw you can visibly see the air getting cleaner and feel the temperature dropping. Marvel</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Tamil-Nadu/Madurai/blog-137379.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 7  American College Concert</title>
                    <description>Its Saturday  Hurray A bit of rest and time to myselfunfortunately not todays cultural adjustment involves getting used to the 6 working day week.  Off to the office as normal.  Its amazing how quickly something different can become normalI managed to sleep through the alarm this morning and woke dangerously late  after quickly showering and dressing I left my room to find t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-136672.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 6</title>
                    <description>Im starting to settle into the daily routine here now.  Breakfast lunch and dinner are served daily in the guest house  which provides a brief escape from the heat of the hospital.  My office in the Laico building is ok  its not air conditioned unlike many others but it does have a pretty efficient fan which keeps it bearable. We had 3 power cuts today which is a reasonably normal state of</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-136671.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 5</title>
                    <description>There are a number of other visitors staying at harmony the international visitor guest house.  There is a Japanese researcher Sachiko a med student from New York Roy an ophthalmic surgeon from Boston Scot Warden an education specialist from San Francisco Kathryn Hecht a representative from the Seva foundation called Dr Suzanne Gilbert who has been coming to Aravind for 27 years and</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-136670.html</link>
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                    <title>Day 4</title>
                    <description>Yesterday turned out to be quite frustrating from a purely work point of view. Having spent some time with my primary contact the Senior IT Manager Ganesh it transpired that his expectations of my assignment and my own were somewhat different. Ganesh viewed me as some technical IT Consultant who could advise him and his team on specific technical improvements such as the configuration of their </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Rajasthan/Jodhpur/blog-136669.html</link>
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