Hello Everyone!
I know it's been awhile but everything has been so crazy here. Lizzie and I are doing our public health capstone internship and therefore need specific number of hours. For each day we have hours we need to do a write up where we say what we did, how it pertains to public health and what we learned. This whole past week we've been typing up our hours and figuring out how many more we will need and our goals for each week. We even made little countdown paper chains for our hours and a countdown calendar for the number of days we have left. We have downloaded a few (about 20) articles and ebooks about the health system here in India to supplement our hospital tours and to add variety to our hours. We don't need to be done and have our internship packet turned in until the 11th of Augustbut we are hoping to get everything done by 26th of July. It'll be hard but we can do it.
Early last week we had a couple guys from the BYU Museum of Arts come to film and learn about Hindu temple ceremonies. One day we rented a couple of cars and went to see three rare temples a couple hours north of us. We ended up being gone for over 12 hours. The first temple was one of the few sun temples left in India. There we met Dr. Swami, an ayurvedic doctor that Westen is working with. He had come by the temple an hour earlier to have a priest bless some sugar crystals for us. They believe the Gods will eat the essence of the food that you give to them and then you eat what's left, which is the physical part. The priest who was blessing it took the entire hour and did 108 yoga-ish poses. He does this blessing about 20 different times throughout the day. Needless to say he was the best fit priest we've ever seen. The second temple was the only known temple to exist of Vishnu as a turtle. The temple had a large lake and a pen with at least 50 turtles. It was quite a unique temple. The third temple was made in the 2nd Century BC. It was elaborate and made of stone. There the camera guys decided to film us saying a few things about the program so they could create a promotional video about the program. Currently Dr. Nuckolls is struggling to find people to come on the program this fall semester and hopefully this film will help.
We also were able to go to the Women's hospital, which was more like a maternity hospital. We kept walking into rooms and all I could think was 'If we were back in the US we would not have been able to just walk into this room.' For example, they wanted to show us where they would do C-sections. We walked in, in our own clothes, and realized there was a girl already in there on a gurney that was going to be wheeled out. On the side there was a bed with a pool of blood just sitting there. She had just finished her C-section and hadn't cleaned up yet and let us in there. They took no precautions. The hospital in general though was our favorite one to go to.
We have had three new students come this week. The first is a dance major names Kathryn who will only be here five weeks. The other two are Steve and Jeannie, a husband and wife. The guy is an anthropologist major who is wanting to do research on the fishing village. His wife, who came along with hime, is a yoga instructor wanting to learn more about the styles of yoga here. We have realized how much we have adjusted to the heat and humidity here watching the new guys adjust.
Well that's all for now. I love you all
Kendra
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