Mother Theresa

Today was my first day volunteering with the sisters of charity. Yesterday afternoon I went to register (they do an orientation every m-w-f for new volunteers). Because I am a nurse they wanted me to work in the Dispensary (clinic handing out meds basically) at Shishu Bhavan (one of the children's homes). It is mainly street people who come in for medication refills. They also have Specialists who come a few times a week to see patients. Today was the pediatric neurologist. It was a busyish morning as it was my first day so learning everything. Pretty easy/basic but many of the medications have different names so everyone is constantly trying to figure out what we need to be giving! The sisters go through everything and explain the medications ect to the clients so the volunteers just have to dispense everything. There are 5 of us working there. 3 of us are nurses and the other 2 are med students.

Tomorrow is Diwali (sp?) which is a Hindu festival. There are actually 2 festivals in the next 2 days I think the second one may be a muslim festival but am not sure about that! Anyhow, Diwali is a very, very important festival here. All the the stores, hotels, homes are all decorating with flowers and lights. Will make sure to take lots of pictures!!