April 30, 9:41 pm, Vellore
I can't believe that my time in Vellore is so quickly coming to an end. Tomorrow is my last day of the rotation and then we'll be heading out of town on a train at about 11 pm. Crazy how fast the past few weeks have flown by!
Today was a good day, though nothing too exciting. I started off the day with an egg dosa at Aavana. It's not on the menu but they said they could make it for me. I think the egg dosa is my favorite indian breakfast food. It was good. Went to clinic today and Aurora and I worked with Anisha again. It was outpatient day again and we saw some interesting things once again. Let's see, a middle-aged man with chicken pox, tinea versicolor, eruptive xanthoma, and some more leprosy. Some fascinating things to see. Anisha was very nice again and did a lot of teaching and explaining for us. She also pimped me some on things that she had taught me on Tuesday. Some stuff I remembered, some I didn't. It was a pretty fun morning though. We took our break mid-morning and went and got some lime juice (kind of like lemonade). It was refreshing and we shot the breeze for a few minutes and then went back to work. Found out that Anisha is about our same age and she is a PG registrar, which is sort of the equivalent to a resident in our system.
We took lunch at about 1 pm and Aavana was super crowded so it took a long time. It's funny, when it gets crowded they just make you share your table. So Aurora and I had to sit and eat lunch with this two random guys sitting across from us. Strange... that would never fly back home. But lunch was great. We got our beloved baked tandori chicken. Oh man, it's so good. Plus we got our paneer butter masala again and some potato dish that was pretty good too. We always order too much food, but we enjoy stuffing ourselves. haha.
After lunch we went to check on our tickets to Ooty. They had our ticket from here to Coimbatore, which is pretty close to Ooty, and then they had to book our ticket from there to Metupalaiyam separate. We were waiting and waiting for the guy to bring that one and finally he brought it but I had to make a run for the bathroom, so I left Aurora to get it. Hopefully it was what we needed. By then it was so late in the afternoon that I didn't go back to the clinic. I just went and hid from the sweltering heat (I think the heat index was like 107 or something today) in my room. I slept some and read for a while and then ventured back over here to the computer lab once the sun had gone into hiding.
I've been trying to plan out the rest of my trip. I think this is how it might shake out: 3 days in Ooty, then spend a day taking a bus to Kodai (probably Tuesday the 5th), another town up in the moutains (can you tell I'm running from the heat?) where I will stay for another 3 days, then try to get a train to Goa on Friday night / Saturday the 9th. I should be able to spend 2-3 days in Goa (relaxing on the beaches) and then fly up to Delhi on Tuesday the 12th, probably in the afternoon or evening. On Wednesday the 13th I think I'll just pay for a day tour out to Agra and the Taj Mahal. It's a bit pricey, but I think it will be a lot easier than trying to book a train and stuff on my own. It's a VERY popular trip. I guess people really want to see one of the seven wonders of the world and all that. :) As do I. Anyway, then that will just leave me Thursday the 14th to bum around Delhi for a day and get myself to the airport by around 10 pm for my flight home, which is early Friday morning (just after midnight). How's that for a plan? I think it will be much more relaxing and enjoyable than trying to work in Mumbai, Udaipur and Jaipur. It's just too much and the trains are just too full and a hassle to try and book. Flying and the day tour to Agra will cost me a bit, but it should only be a couple hundred between the two I think. That's okay. I guess I'll have to come back someday to see the rest of the sites!
Okay it's getting late and I'm tired of this HOT computer lab. Goodnight!
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