Today was another busy but fun day...we started off w/yet another fancy breakfast (not necessarily the food but the setup). Then headed to our orientation room where we met up w/Dr. Goyal. He spent some time telling us abt IHMR in general and what programs are offered here and what not...thereafter had someone take us on a tour of the campus (nice campus btw)...followed by tea and snacks...and thereafter he spent an hour and a half speaking to us about HIV both globally as well as within India. It was a very informative lecture but I don't think I want to sit here and spit out the lecture notes to you. This followed by lunch---w/in 5 hours we had had three meals...lol crazy!!!
Post-lunch we headed off to the FXB office where we met up w/Dr. Gupta the executive director of the FXB program run here in India. He told us about the three projects run by FXB within India...unfortunately I don't have my notes here so I will have to come back and write in the details. But I must say they run fantastic programs...all very original with some great ideas. The program is sponsored by a Countess from France who is basically loaded. Heck she had Harvard name one of the the buildings after her late son for a whopping $20 million (http://www.fxb.org/www2/main_directories/albina.htm). Her money is well-spent here and some great work is done.
After the site visit headed off to the hospital for Emma's appt w/the doc and we hung around the market type street...nothing special...so no real shopping done...which was a small bummer. We are now headed off to dinner which Dr. Goyal is treating us to...supposed to be a resort type place serving traditional food etc etc...
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Awesome pictures, Sej!
BTW, have you lost weight?? You look thinner in the pics.
I wish :(:(:(
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