Today was our last day at IIHMR as we head back tomorrow morning for what??? Nothing other then Bapu Nature...wildlife preserve within the city (located in Padpadganj near Mother Dairy---entrance fee: talk to Dr. Nair) where one can freely find lizards and flying-lizards and flying roaches and mosquitoes and what not!!! And to think they would take us from a place like that and dare to put us in the luxury of IIHMR. The meals and computer lab will be dearly missed...though dinner today was a bummer...definitely not The Last Supper in style :( Today the morning was spent prepping on the presentation which we didn't do until after lunch and Dr. Goyal apparently didn't seem to be too intrigued by. He kept falling asleep throughout the presentations-and I promise our PPT was not that bad!!! Post presentation we headed off to the movies but again had no luck w/no Shootout At Lokhandwala playing and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom all sold out for the 6 pm show. Went back to the same mall from the Pizza Hut day and did some serious bargaining!!! When I say serious I mean it---we are pretty sure that Paul is more and more thankful everyday that he has no sisters---lol he told us we were being ruthless when in fact we were just being women :):):) Off to Delhi again w/all of it's chaos and more chaos.
Today our presentations were of an idea we came up of on our own---we each chose a country/area of the world that we would research on about HIV-AIDS and thereafter present to Dr. Goyal. It was quite interesting to see that there both many similarities as well as key differences among all of the communities---US, Japan, Korea, Cuba, SE Asia (four countries), Russian Federation, and last but not least Canada. It became apparent more and more as our presentation progressed that in some parts of the world the situation is not nearly as grave as in other parts---for example in the US or Canada the rates seem so trivial in comparision to India or Thailand or sub-Saharan Africa. It was also interesting to note that nations considered quite 'modern' by some in fact are struggling to deal w/a conservative-minded population whereas in other nations that one may traditionally imagine as being very conservative in fact are quite open when dealing w/these issues...
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Maybe he was falling asleep b/c it was kind of like preaching to the choir. He knows the rates and the dire situations abroad so he took it as a time to nap...not very nice, but he sounds like a busy guy.
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