Ghana is amazing! the people are very kind, fun loving, and interesting.
Being here for Unite for sight was great. Im going to have to post more specifics later, but they will come. We saw hundreds and hundreds of patients this week, at outreach camps set up in villages. many patients were referred to the crystal eye clinic in accra for surgery, and we got to observe dozens of surgeries this week, for cataracts and pterygium. they dont have phaco here, so the surgeries are all small incision cataract surgeries (but still use no sutures). Its interesting to compare the surgical techniques and practices of the different sites ive seen, everything from the number of assistants, to the sterility and such, and the operating style, techniques and system.
We went to the canopy walk (a suspended bridge system above a national park (rain forest like) and to a former castle where slaves were held in cape coast. that was pretty interesting.
We also got to see and experience alot of ghana on outreaches. some where as many as 3 hours away and most where above 2 hours driving time each way. pretty amazing to hear so many languages and see a little peice. in culture from village to village.
Anyway, I'm going to morroco tonight until the 16, then i have a day layover in london until i return to the us on the 17.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Final Europe and travel to Ghana
Sorry! The internet is very spotty in Ghana. I"ll finish up Europe and then talk about Ghana because I'm leaving tonight!
From Vienna I went to:
Salzburg
where I hiked and listened to amazing classical music in the street.
Munich
went to the english gardens, other gardens and some halls, dachau, city tour
Innsbruk
hiked. hard.
Vienna
again to get my flight to Accra via cairo, egypt
The flight from cairo to accra was beautiful- the sun setting over africa was so amazing. it was extended for hours as we flew southwest towards it. as it faded, you could see fires on the ground lighting up (a dark red orange color, not like the lights of the city). Then, when we flew through the clouds as we travelled, the stars emerged, covering the deep blue sky in a wave of shimmering light. stars at 20 000 feet above rural africa are a different experience than stars anywhere else in the world.
From Vienna I went to:
Salzburg
where I hiked and listened to amazing classical music in the street.
Munich
went to the english gardens, other gardens and some halls, dachau, city tour
Innsbruk
hiked. hard.
Vienna
again to get my flight to Accra via cairo, egypt
The flight from cairo to accra was beautiful- the sun setting over africa was so amazing. it was extended for hours as we flew southwest towards it. as it faded, you could see fires on the ground lighting up (a dark red orange color, not like the lights of the city). Then, when we flew through the clouds as we travelled, the stars emerged, covering the deep blue sky in a wave of shimmering light. stars at 20 000 feet above rural africa are a different experience than stars anywhere else in the world.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Been a while....
Wow, so sorry for the delay! It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I'm going to run through it quickly, but I only have a bit of time, so I apologize.
I left Patna on a day with flooding waist deep! We waded to get a taxi from a higher area carrying our bags on our heads!
I spent the day in Delhi, which was fun.
Flew back to Europe which I'll run through in a few sentences.
Amsterdam
-fun but I got sick from the western food after the month in India
Paris
-fun but again I got sick from the food. the Eiffel tower is gorgeous at night, and I love the musee d'orsee. made friends with people from toronto, australia, madagascar and more.
Grenoble, France
-beautiful. made me miss the mountains, so i went to switzerland next. hung out with some local french kids at a music festival though, which was cool
Bern, Switzerland
-cool ogre fountain eating babies. made a new zealander friend
Gimmelwald, Switzerland (near interlaken)
-AMAZING. Hostel with a hot tub under the mountains and hiking was so awesome there. I stayed an extra day. went hiking with some sisters from chicago who i wore completely out by the end of the day since I wanted to hike more and more.
Bologna, Italy
-cool to see the KE stuff. hung out with some italian people my age who spoke no english. fun time though
Venice, Italy
-got lost a lot, had a picnic by a canal, made a new australian friend, spanish friend and ecuadorian friend
Vienna, Austria
-saw the freud museum (cool) and wandered around. im about to go eat what is apparently the best chocolate cake in the world. I'll let you know.
After Vienna, I go to Salzburg, then munich, then I leave for Ghana on July 31.
I'll try to upload some pictures tomorrow or tonight from salzburg. I just ran out of memory cards, so I have to get more. (I've used up 12gb worth....thats over 4000 pictures).
I left Patna on a day with flooding waist deep! We waded to get a taxi from a higher area carrying our bags on our heads!
I spent the day in Delhi, which was fun.
Flew back to Europe which I'll run through in a few sentences.
Amsterdam
-fun but I got sick from the western food after the month in India
Paris
-fun but again I got sick from the food. the Eiffel tower is gorgeous at night, and I love the musee d'orsee. made friends with people from toronto, australia, madagascar and more.
Grenoble, France
-beautiful. made me miss the mountains, so i went to switzerland next. hung out with some local french kids at a music festival though, which was cool
Bern, Switzerland
-cool ogre fountain eating babies. made a new zealander friend
Gimmelwald, Switzerland (near interlaken)
-AMAZING. Hostel with a hot tub under the mountains and hiking was so awesome there. I stayed an extra day. went hiking with some sisters from chicago who i wore completely out by the end of the day since I wanted to hike more and more.
Bologna, Italy
-cool to see the KE stuff. hung out with some italian people my age who spoke no english. fun time though
Venice, Italy
-got lost a lot, had a picnic by a canal, made a new australian friend, spanish friend and ecuadorian friend
Vienna, Austria
-saw the freud museum (cool) and wandered around. im about to go eat what is apparently the best chocolate cake in the world. I'll let you know.
After Vienna, I go to Salzburg, then munich, then I leave for Ghana on July 31.
I'll try to upload some pictures tomorrow or tonight from salzburg. I just ran out of memory cards, so I have to get more. (I've used up 12gb worth....thats over 4000 pictures).
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Patna
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Some pictures- the internet is slow, so consider these a preview. One of my personal favorites:
Some pictures- the internet is slow, so consider these a preview. One of my personal favorites:
It's raining. That's putting it very lightly. It's barely stopped raining for more than a few hours since I got here on July 1. We're in the middle of Monsoon season, and Patna has poor drainage. That means a ton of flooding. When we walk, the water is above our knees usually, and when we drive it feels like we're in a boat- we have a wake and everything. I should have brought my wakeboard or waterskis.
It also means the power goes out constantly. It's pretty amazing to be in surgery (sometimes with a needle stuck in the eye) when the power goes out. An assistant holds a flashlight and they perform surgery by flashlight until the generator kicks in.
Patna is a lot different than Chennai. I am the only white face here (that we have seen), and everyone stares at me everywhere. The patients often ask me about myself in broken english, but mostly people here don't know any english.
I'm living with the Sinhas, a family with 3 ophthalmologists and a gynecologist. Really inspiring, smart people who are teaching me everything from diseases of the eye to indian food and life to other ways of the world.
Our daily schedule is rigorous. We wake up early and have tea at 8, followed by breakfast (usually a mix of both indian foods and eggs and toast). Then we head to the AB Eye Institute, where we see private paying patients. At the clinic, Asim (the other Unite for Sight volunteer here) and I take patient histories (in Hindi-I'm learning, but I am butchering the pronunciations) and make preliminary diagnoses for the patients. It's interesting- in the US or Canada, you wouldn't normally see many cases during these private clinic hours besides check ups and such, but since preventative care is not as wide spread in India, we often see cases of mature cataracts, pterygium, glaucoma, and other severe eye diseases in addition to normal check ups and glasses prescriptions. This is also when we get to see surgeries- we've already gotten to see several cataract surgeries and many injections of anti angiogenesis drugs into the eye for various reasons.
Then we have lunch at home at around 4pm. Lunch is usually indian food with a dessert of fresh mangoes. After lunch we head to a charity clinic, which takes place at a different location each day of the week. These are very busy clinics where we see up to 50 patients in a few hours, and these patients are so poor they have probably never seen a doctor before. Often we ask the patients to come into the clinic for further testing or treatment, which they do the next Saturday, when we see all charity patients at the AB Eye Institute.
After the charity clinic, we return to the AB Eye Institute to see more private patients until dinner at around 830 or 9 pm- again, Indian food with fresh mangoes. Then we get some much needed sleep.
Up until 48 hours ago I was lucky-the only effects of being in India were a lot of sweating and many mosquito bites, but then I got a fever, severe diarrhea, and a bad headache until this morning. The Ciprofloxin I took helped a bunch, but I'm worried to go back to eating everything, so I'm taking it easy on the food (yes, even the mangoes, although it hurts to say no when they offer).
The Sinhas are very inspiring- they keep this same schedule with or without Unite for Sight volunteers, and on top of it are active in the community- starting a full charity eye hospital next door to the AB Eye Institute, and with some funding from UfS they've started a charity School for Blind girls- we went there the other day...pretty amazing. More then 60 students, with graduates going on to prestigious Indian Universities- otherwise these young girls would be forced to beg on the street or worse.
Anyway, I have 9 more days here in Patna before I head off to Delhi and then to Europe. I'm still planning for Europe, so if you're there, let me know via facebook or email and maybe I can work my trip to be able to see you.
I'm starting to miss everyone in the states! If you haven't talked to me online since I left, shoot me an email to let me know what you're up to. The internet here is kind of spotty, but I'll do my best to respond!
It also means the power goes out constantly. It's pretty amazing to be in surgery (sometimes with a needle stuck in the eye) when the power goes out. An assistant holds a flashlight and they perform surgery by flashlight until the generator kicks in.
Patna is a lot different than Chennai. I am the only white face here (that we have seen), and everyone stares at me everywhere. The patients often ask me about myself in broken english, but mostly people here don't know any english.
I'm living with the Sinhas, a family with 3 ophthalmologists and a gynecologist. Really inspiring, smart people who are teaching me everything from diseases of the eye to indian food and life to other ways of the world.
Our daily schedule is rigorous. We wake up early and have tea at 8, followed by breakfast (usually a mix of both indian foods and eggs and toast). Then we head to the AB Eye Institute, where we see private paying patients. At the clinic, Asim (the other Unite for Sight volunteer here) and I take patient histories (in Hindi-I'm learning, but I am butchering the pronunciations) and make preliminary diagnoses for the patients. It's interesting- in the US or Canada, you wouldn't normally see many cases during these private clinic hours besides check ups and such, but since preventative care is not as wide spread in India, we often see cases of mature cataracts, pterygium, glaucoma, and other severe eye diseases in addition to normal check ups and glasses prescriptions. This is also when we get to see surgeries- we've already gotten to see several cataract surgeries and many injections of anti angiogenesis drugs into the eye for various reasons.
Then we have lunch at home at around 4pm. Lunch is usually indian food with a dessert of fresh mangoes. After lunch we head to a charity clinic, which takes place at a different location each day of the week. These are very busy clinics where we see up to 50 patients in a few hours, and these patients are so poor they have probably never seen a doctor before. Often we ask the patients to come into the clinic for further testing or treatment, which they do the next Saturday, when we see all charity patients at the AB Eye Institute.
After the charity clinic, we return to the AB Eye Institute to see more private patients until dinner at around 830 or 9 pm- again, Indian food with fresh mangoes. Then we get some much needed sleep.
Up until 48 hours ago I was lucky-the only effects of being in India were a lot of sweating and many mosquito bites, but then I got a fever, severe diarrhea, and a bad headache until this morning. The Ciprofloxin I took helped a bunch, but I'm worried to go back to eating everything, so I'm taking it easy on the food (yes, even the mangoes, although it hurts to say no when they offer).
The Sinhas are very inspiring- they keep this same schedule with or without Unite for Sight volunteers, and on top of it are active in the community- starting a full charity eye hospital next door to the AB Eye Institute, and with some funding from UfS they've started a charity School for Blind girls- we went there the other day...pretty amazing. More then 60 students, with graduates going on to prestigious Indian Universities- otherwise these young girls would be forced to beg on the street or worse.
Anyway, I have 9 more days here in Patna before I head off to Delhi and then to Europe. I'm still planning for Europe, so if you're there, let me know via facebook or email and maybe I can work my trip to be able to see you.
I'm starting to miss everyone in the states! If you haven't talked to me online since I left, shoot me an email to let me know what you're up to. The internet here is kind of spotty, but I'll do my best to respond!
Delhi
Stayed at a really sketchy hotel right behind Jamu Masjid, a huge mosque in Old Delhi. Only 300 rupees a night ($1 USD=42 Rupees). Jamu Masjid is enormous- it holds 25,000+ people.
Highlights of my one day in Delhi include:
-Jamu Masjid
-The Red Fort
-Gahndi's cremation site
-Canaught place (a market)
-dinner at United coffee house (very old- the guide book recoomended it- i thought it was over rated)
-gave my leftovers to a street family with about 6 kids.
I tried to DHL my tablas back, but it's $275!! They only do overnight shipping, and that's much much more than the tablas even cost! I guess I'll wait until europe.
When I woke up at 5 to go the airport for my flight to Patna, it seemed that most of the city's 40,000 street inhabitants were sleeping on the sidewalk outside my hotel. I had to step over and around them to get to the cab. quite an experience. remember, there are also goats, cows, stray dogs, horses, autorickshaws, bikes, and more on the streets here. Pretty different than Colorado Springs.
Highlights of my one day in Delhi include:
-Jamu Masjid
-The Red Fort
-Gahndi's cremation site
-Canaught place (a market)
-dinner at United coffee house (very old- the guide book recoomended it- i thought it was over rated)
-gave my leftovers to a street family with about 6 kids.
I tried to DHL my tablas back, but it's $275!! They only do overnight shipping, and that's much much more than the tablas even cost! I guess I'll wait until europe.
When I woke up at 5 to go the airport for my flight to Patna, it seemed that most of the city's 40,000 street inhabitants were sleeping on the sidewalk outside my hotel. I had to step over and around them to get to the cab. quite an experience. remember, there are also goats, cows, stray dogs, horses, autorickshaws, bikes, and more on the streets here. Pretty different than Colorado Springs.
Summing up Chennai
Sorry for the delay in updates here- I've been busy. I'm going to sum up Chennai quickly day by day, then put another post about Delhi (where I was for one day) and Patna, where I am now.
Chennai- Day 1
A city eye camp- saw 174 patients, gave 99 glasses, 36 cataract patients id'ed
went to an indian rock concert (pretty fun), then a nice restaurant called Casa Picolla for dinner, where we met Shahul for the first time
Day 2
Another city eye camp- started learning Thamul so that I could do visual acuity screening and better communicate- saw 196 patients, gave 86 glasses, 25 cataract patients id'ed for surgery
that evening we went to Shahul's beach house- beautiful. he was there when the tsunami hit- was swept 1/2 km away and the house was destroyed but has since been rebuilt
Day 3
Went to the Hande Hospital- saw 2 cataract surgeries- Dr. Varman makes it look incredibly easy
went to Pondi Bazaar, a music shop (got tablaas!!)
ate at a terrible restaurant- most of the volunteers got sick overnight and my room mate Eric got hives- everytime he ate anything with spices (masala) he got hives. he's a big guy too, so eating naan and rice all week was rough- he got some protein shake stuff though, which helped.
Luckily, I haven't had any reactions (besides the typical light diahrea-sorry...too much info, i know) to any of the food here yet, which is great, because I love indian food.
Day 4
Day off
went to Mamalapurum with Senthill (volunteer coordinator) and some other volunteers. indians are charged 10 rupies, and foreigners 250....pretty ridiculous, huh?
anyway, it was some cool ruins and a temple on the sea. I climbed a coconut tree.
Day 5
Village camp (about 1.5 hrs away) saw 126 patients, gave 48 glasses, id'ed 29 cataract patients for surgery
went to a nice chinese restaurant that night called cascade with Shahul and Ajas before dancing at Pasha. fun stuff-ask for more details. the fried ice cream was amazing at cascade!
Day 6
Fishing village on the coast- eye camp- saw 110 patients, gave 44 glasses, 29 cataract surgeries.
beautiful village with cute kids all over asking us to take their photo and then crowding to see it.
went to St. Thomas cathedral downtown Chennai- interesting. went to seashell rest. for dinner right near Hotel Assai.
Day 7
Hande Hospital- 5 cataract surgeries and 1 retinal surgery
afternoon- did a goat's eye cataract surgery- so hard. I can really appreciate the skill and care it takes to do these now, and it makes Dr. Varman's quick and perfect surgeries seem even more amazing.
Casa Picolla again with Shahul and Ajas, then Cafe Mocha.
Day 8
Camp in the outskirts of the city- 106 patients, gave 48 glasses, 19 cataract id'ed
went to Pasha again with Shahul, where we met a girl who is 20- she gets married in 2 weeks to a guy she's never met and she might run away to the US. it was crazy to hear about her life- so different than western girls.
Day 9
Day off- no camps. no clinic, no surgeries.
slept in, then went to fisherman's cove with Shahul, Ajas, Eric, and Abrar. that's the fancy resort where bill gates stays when he's in india. had dinner at the park hotel, then went to hotel assai to drop off eric- his flight left that night. went to cafe mocha, where Senthill and Thanraj met us to say goodbye.
My flight left at 635 am the next day, so i went with Jennifer (who left at 500 am) to the airport at 2. fell asleep waiting for my flight and woke up 5 min after it left -oops! luckily, i was able to get on the next flight to Delhi with no extra charge (i still can't figure out how I managed that) and reached Delhi at about 1100.
Chennai- Day 1
A city eye camp- saw 174 patients, gave 99 glasses, 36 cataract patients id'ed
went to an indian rock concert (pretty fun), then a nice restaurant called Casa Picolla for dinner, where we met Shahul for the first time
Day 2
Another city eye camp- started learning Thamul so that I could do visual acuity screening and better communicate- saw 196 patients, gave 86 glasses, 25 cataract patients id'ed for surgery
that evening we went to Shahul's beach house- beautiful. he was there when the tsunami hit- was swept 1/2 km away and the house was destroyed but has since been rebuilt
Day 3
Went to the Hande Hospital- saw 2 cataract surgeries- Dr. Varman makes it look incredibly easy
went to Pondi Bazaar, a music shop (got tablaas!!)
ate at a terrible restaurant- most of the volunteers got sick overnight and my room mate Eric got hives- everytime he ate anything with spices (masala) he got hives. he's a big guy too, so eating naan and rice all week was rough- he got some protein shake stuff though, which helped.
Luckily, I haven't had any reactions (besides the typical light diahrea-sorry...too much info, i know) to any of the food here yet, which is great, because I love indian food.
Day 4
Day off
went to Mamalapurum with Senthill (volunteer coordinator) and some other volunteers. indians are charged 10 rupies, and foreigners 250....pretty ridiculous, huh?
anyway, it was some cool ruins and a temple on the sea. I climbed a coconut tree.
Day 5
Village camp (about 1.5 hrs away) saw 126 patients, gave 48 glasses, id'ed 29 cataract patients for surgery
went to a nice chinese restaurant that night called cascade with Shahul and Ajas before dancing at Pasha. fun stuff-ask for more details. the fried ice cream was amazing at cascade!
Day 6
Fishing village on the coast- eye camp- saw 110 patients, gave 44 glasses, 29 cataract surgeries.
beautiful village with cute kids all over asking us to take their photo and then crowding to see it.
went to St. Thomas cathedral downtown Chennai- interesting. went to seashell rest. for dinner right near Hotel Assai.
Day 7
Hande Hospital- 5 cataract surgeries and 1 retinal surgery
afternoon- did a goat's eye cataract surgery- so hard. I can really appreciate the skill and care it takes to do these now, and it makes Dr. Varman's quick and perfect surgeries seem even more amazing.
Casa Picolla again with Shahul and Ajas, then Cafe Mocha.
Day 8
Camp in the outskirts of the city- 106 patients, gave 48 glasses, 19 cataract id'ed
went to Pasha again with Shahul, where we met a girl who is 20- she gets married in 2 weeks to a guy she's never met and she might run away to the US. it was crazy to hear about her life- so different than western girls.
Day 9
Day off- no camps. no clinic, no surgeries.
slept in, then went to fisherman's cove with Shahul, Ajas, Eric, and Abrar. that's the fancy resort where bill gates stays when he's in india. had dinner at the park hotel, then went to hotel assai to drop off eric- his flight left that night. went to cafe mocha, where Senthill and Thanraj met us to say goodbye.
My flight left at 635 am the next day, so i went with Jennifer (who left at 500 am) to the airport at 2. fell asleep waiting for my flight and woke up 5 min after it left -oops! luckily, i was able to get on the next flight to Delhi with no extra charge (i still can't figure out how I managed that) and reached Delhi at about 1100.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Chennai!
So, leaving Kathmandu was an incredible hassle. First, my flight got delayed 4 hours because of weather- it's monsoon season, meaning the weather is hot, rainy, and very cloudy and foggy. This meant I would miss my connecting flight on a different airline from Dehli. I arrived in Dehliu (5 hours late) (apparently the plane almost made it to Kathmandu, then turned around back to Dehli, then cam back to Kathmandu to get us- all with the other passengers on board!) and I was sent to the ticket window after clearing customs. I was told that they would cancel my flight and book me a new one, without refunding me for my original ticket, and making me pay for the new one. Then I got sent to 4 different terminals and maybe 20 diferent windows- each airline has several seperate windows for different tasks, all with rediculously long lines, and many agents who don't speak any english. Meanwhile, the weather outside was worsenning- clouds gathering and rain falling as I took crowded, hot busses from terminal to terminal, trying to figure out what to do. On top of it all, my phone stopped working. I finally talked to a manager who helped me out and as she handed me my boarding pass (it had been 3 hours since i landed by now) the whole power in the airport shut off.
luckily, it was only a minor blackout, so all that was left now was to wait for my flight for 3 more hours. hoping my bags were still somewhere, I waited. about 5 minutes before boarding, they announced that all flights out of Dehli were delayed indefinently. By this point, I had given in to being stuck in the Delhi airport for the rest of the summer.
Anyway, my flight finally left and I arrived in to the hotel here at about 1:30 am, after leaving the hotel in Kathmandu at 6:30 am.
So, I've been in Chennai 3 days now, and working with Unite for Sight is great!
There are 11 volunteers here total, and we've been doin eye camps in the city- today some of us went to the hospital and got to watch cataract surgeries and see post op patients. At each one of those camps so far, we saw over 200 patients, gave out around 100 pairs of glasses and identified about 15 candidates for surgery. Tomorrow some of us have a day off and we're going to Mamalaporrum, a city near here with a cool 400 year old temple there. Then on wed we do some village camps. Yesterday we went to one of the volunteer's friends, Shahool's beach house, which was amazing- huge place looking right out at the ocean right where the tsunami hit- he was there when it hit, and it destoyed his old house there and he was swept about a km away by the water, but was ok. Then we hung out and had dinner at the resort his father owns near there, which was amazing! Early sunday morning Shahool wants to go snake hunting for poisinous snakes- apparently one of his favorite activities. :)
The lack of pictures is not because I haven't taken any, believe me, but the computer cafes here are very old and the internet incredibly slow- this one does not even have usb ports, so even if I had the hour it would take to upload one picture, I wouldn't be able to. So, imagine up to a dozen indian children crowding around us and smiling and saying "hello!" they ask us to take photos by yelling "photo?" and then giggle, smile and run shily away after we show them the picture on the digital camera. Then a few minutes later, they run back and ask for another photo- one little boy stayed with us all day, asking for hundreds of photos.
This is a long post now I guess- there's so much to write about here, but I'll have to go now and write more later.
Eric
luckily, it was only a minor blackout, so all that was left now was to wait for my flight for 3 more hours. hoping my bags were still somewhere, I waited. about 5 minutes before boarding, they announced that all flights out of Dehli were delayed indefinently. By this point, I had given in to being stuck in the Delhi airport for the rest of the summer.
Anyway, my flight finally left and I arrived in to the hotel here at about 1:30 am, after leaving the hotel in Kathmandu at 6:30 am.
So, I've been in Chennai 3 days now, and working with Unite for Sight is great!
There are 11 volunteers here total, and we've been doin eye camps in the city- today some of us went to the hospital and got to watch cataract surgeries and see post op patients. At each one of those camps so far, we saw over 200 patients, gave out around 100 pairs of glasses and identified about 15 candidates for surgery. Tomorrow some of us have a day off and we're going to Mamalaporrum, a city near here with a cool 400 year old temple there. Then on wed we do some village camps. Yesterday we went to one of the volunteer's friends, Shahool's beach house, which was amazing- huge place looking right out at the ocean right where the tsunami hit- he was there when it hit, and it destoyed his old house there and he was swept about a km away by the water, but was ok. Then we hung out and had dinner at the resort his father owns near there, which was amazing! Early sunday morning Shahool wants to go snake hunting for poisinous snakes- apparently one of his favorite activities. :)
The lack of pictures is not because I haven't taken any, believe me, but the computer cafes here are very old and the internet incredibly slow- this one does not even have usb ports, so even if I had the hour it would take to upload one picture, I wouldn't be able to. So, imagine up to a dozen indian children crowding around us and smiling and saying "hello!" they ask us to take photos by yelling "photo?" and then giggle, smile and run shily away after we show them the picture on the digital camera. Then a few minutes later, they run back and ask for another photo- one little boy stayed with us all day, asking for hundreds of photos.
This is a long post now I guess- there's so much to write about here, but I'll have to go now and write more later.
Eric
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