I keep meaning to write here but end up working on other things, and then it's midnight and I have to go to bed! Right now it's only 11pm so I guess I have an hour! Things have been pretty busy here. Sunday was a good chill day, went for a walk around Bhandra (the area we are staying in) then went to a free yoga class near our apartment. The yoga studio is a 5-10 min walk from our place and is super nice. Monday morning Tania, myself and a couple of the girls who are helping out on the health project (organizing charts) met to figure what our plan would be for the next couple weeks. After getting that sorted, it was work time! I spent the day working on creating forms for Vikas (who I am training) to use for interview questions when he sees someone who is sick (ie on of the students) etc. Oh yeah, Monday was a holiday, Ede, and we were strongly advised not to leave our houses unless we wanted to see some serious animal carnage. Basically all the great big goats that were all over the city, in our neighborhood, innocently hanging out, where all killed (as in on the street), sacrificed, and then butchered to be eaten. I'm not sure if I mentioned before, but the smell of dead meat is seriously the worst smell ever here. I can handle smells pretty well, but the smell of the meat makes me instantly feel like gagging. The meat market is the worst place to walk by just because of the smell. Sooo, when we finally ventured out of the apartment to go to yoga in serious need of fresh air and exercise, the smell was pretty intense in a few places (more so then normal).

Tuesday was the first actually day out of the apartment to work. I spent the day at Khar school going through the medical files and making a list of all the kids needing follow-up assessments (from the last time they were seen in April), helping Tania transfer the form I made, onto an excel form (easier to use, I don't have the program, and she's good at it), and sorting out a big bag of medications that had been donated to them from somewhere in Spain! And of course, more yoga in the evening. It's good for the body and soul! And more importantly, they have air conditioning there!!

Today I went to the hospital with Tania in the morning to meet Kokila. Kokila is one of the students at the school in Khar. She was badly burned by propane about a month ago. She ended up with over 50% of her body burned (you can read her story at: http://oneinternationalinformation.blogspot.com/). The skin grafts have taken really well and everything seems to be healing great. The plan is for her to come home on Friday as long as everything continues to go well. The big issue will be keeping everything clean and rats away (there is a ridiculous amount of rats everywhere. The kids all have rat bites regularly).

So we are trying to plan for ways to keep things clean and manageable for her (even using the bathroom will be an issue as they just have squat toilets). This afternoon was spent doing follow-up assessments on kids. Most pretty basic, just doing quick check-ups. One kid with something really bad going on with his eyes (Tania was able to get an appointment for him tomorrow with the specialist so hopefully it's not to fix whatever it is and keep him from going blind), and some not nice looking ears.

Today was also Vikas' first day EVER doing/seeing anything medical related. A bit overwhelming for him has he told me later he has never even seen someone have their temperature checked... Thankfully he is smart and super keen and excited to do this job!

Tomorrow will be an all day intensive working with Vikas to get him familiar with everything!

It's midnight now, so I need to go to bed!!