Hello, hello! I have managed to make it to the internet again, but still haven't found a place here in town where I can upload more photos. There are quite a few from this past week. We went rafting down the Ganges yesterday, which was a ton of fun! I even jumped off the cliff into the water :-) We're taking daily lessons in naturpoathic theory, and last week started learning about Swedish massage, whcih is the kind they do for patients here at our site. We...

Hello! I am in Rishikesh now under way with the naturopathic medicine rotation. We got here yesterday a little before lunch and were shown around the naturopathy site where our ashram is. (An ashram is the Rishikesh version of a hotel, and patients receiving naturopathic care stay in the same on we're in, so they eat in our cafeteria are and everything.) Sarah, another girl from the last session who is staying longer with Alyssa and I, helped show us around ...

Hello everyone! So after talking to my parents and them both requesting that i make my blog posts shorter, I've taken their advice to heart! I was actually posting my daily journal entries, which I've realized take a very long time to type up. I still am not completely caught up, and I dont want to keep holding everyone up from being able to read what's going on here. I just finished y fourth week of clinicals, my second week in Dehra Dun. I spent the first ...

Alright, here's my account of my first day in India. It was a bl ur, but I tried to get it all down! Saturday, April 5, 2008 I woke up as we were in the area of the Stans (Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, etc.) based on my estimation from what I remember of World Studies freshman year of high school.As I look out my window at the sunrise, I notice that just as my experience ahead will be new and different, the horizon this morning isn't its usual self.To...

Here's the journal entry from the second day of flights and airports. Friday, April 4, 2008 There weren't many people in the SFO airport, at least not around the gate where I came in.As more flights started coming in and the day got older, more people began joining me in the food court where I was sitting with my computer.Carson and I talked periodically on the phone as I tried to figure out how to load Yahoo Messenger and WindowsLive Messenger on my computer...