Skin hunger

Oatmeal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our gym has oatmeal!!!! You have NO idea how
wonderful that is. Imagine going out to Indian dinner everyday for
every meal for a week and then extrapolate for a month. There is no
such thing as breakfast here... So you eat curry at 8am (and unlike
Cathy, I do not yet smell of curry... I don't think...)

Anyway his gym is awesome. Free wifi, yoga and spinning classes, state
of the art equipment, everyone gets a personal trainer and personal
work out plan, and a spa where everything is 50% off for members. It's
kinda expensive ($17 per week) but it's worth it. My only complaint is
that you have to hear about their blood group diet and I am definitely
a skeptic. Not decided though so if anyone has more info, please
share.

So skin hunger... Haha. When we were in yoga class tonight (which was
so good), he instructor kept coming by me and Cathy and touching us.
Not in a weird way. Actually it was probably because our muscles are
so tight and they probably aren't used to seein that in women. Anyway
it felt SO good! ... Not to knock the massage Cathy gave me at 3am one
night when we were awake from jet lag but .... :-P
So we decided to get massages here tomorrow. We looked at the list
and found out an hour massage is 750 rupees. Aka $17!! I may get one
every week.... Or five.

In other news, things are goin well. We are seeing so much crazy stuff
on derm which is awesome but disgusting. Skin conditions are seriously
so gross. And all day I'm itching bc we are talking about it and I'm
seein all these itchy people ahhhhh

We saw our first case of leprosy today. And no not with limbs falling
off. But with severe atrophy of he guys hand from nerve damage. And we
saw leishmaniasis the other day. Also Addison's disease changes, a 60
year old lady with clubbed feet, cutaneous larvae migrans...

Everyone we work with is SO nice! Esp the young ladies who are
interns/residents. They are very talkative and give us so much advice
about life here. We would have had no idea we have to get blouses
stitched for out sarees and stuff like that. The main attending is
really nice and such a good doc but he KILLS me with the head bobble.
You can't tell if he is answering yes or no and also you can't tell
when he's asking a question or making a statement with a dramatic
pause. It's ridic.

But something that sucks about work (besides no AC in the hospital and
he constant sweat running down my back)... They work 7 days a week!
WTF?! This really throws a wrench in our plans to go to varkala, he
tea fields, and the wildlife sanctuary in Kerala. It's depressing not
habit a day off to look forward to. The mindset is so different here.
They don't even care about anything but work. In a way it's admirable
but I am SO thankful not to live here. We will probably ask for next
weekend off to go to the wildlife place bc theres no way I'm missing
seeing tigers! I don't think theyll mind but we do fel bad asking off
every weekend. At least Sunday is jut a half day.

Ok time to go home from this awesome gym. I get palpitations on the
autorickshaw ride home bc of how crazy they drive here. Like
seriously, is it necessary to be 0.5 inches away from the giant truck
in front of you? Or honk your horn 3 times for every car, truck,
motocycle, person, goat that comes within 4 feet of you? And is it
necessary to drive 50mph on dirt roads with speed bumps when you have
to slow down every 40 feet for a pothole anyway? And is it necessary
for he stench of fish and shit to be in the air EVERYWHERE? And is it
necessary to carry elephants in trucks? I really don't think so...
Well maybe the last one :-)

Xoxo
Laura