Yes, I'm actually in India that was many years my greatest dream!
I'm at 19.02. along with eight prisoners who were chained together with handcuffs, (and increased with of course a lot of other people) in the plane to Calcutta.
The flight went by pretty fast. Having arrived in Calcutta I was looking for a Guest House and I am going to explore the city a bit. India is different than anything I've ever seen. I could spend hours just walking through the streets, without that I would get bored for even a minute. In the morning you see everywhere on the roadside men, soaping and washing at the drinking fountain on the street, you see how open the first chai stalls to sell their delicious sweet-milky, spiced tea, and like the first chapatis on small fires baked. The only very strange for me is that you on the road to 90 percent only men can see and I will therefore particularly as a woman stared. However if you only do not make eye contact takes is no problem. I also feel in any way insecure in the streets as more and so many people are traveling, so that one can so easily happen nothing.
What is a positive surprise for me is that almost all the prices are fixed (they are just printed on the product), it is hardly sodas over the table drawn.
eight days I spent in Calcutta, with eight Japanese slept in a dorm and volunteer work in a Mother Teresa home made.
The first two days I have in a house with handicapped children worked. Here I had the impression that everything is very was well structured and the children quite well.
I had the good fortune to meet a young French girl who works as a nurse in a house for long term patients. So I went the next day with her. The first day I've only assisted. On the following days I have been patient but simply the set before and I had to take care without professional help to their sometimes very cruel injury. I have doctored amputated leg stump, which never healed properly, washed out huge, malodorous wounds already, free of dirt and dead skin disinfected and reconnected ... But we had unfortunately no narcotics, analgesics, or anything else, so many sat Patients there and cried aloud in pain, but we could not do anything else-have no chance to get medical attention.
have in another flat noticed I cut off as two nurses, a woman is fully conscious of the toes with scissors have that looked very dead indeed, but still have hurt terribly. Everything something unimaginable for us, but unfortunately there really.
I can not and will not now tell all that I've seen this week and experienced, but it was a very formative, hard experience for me, which I will not soon forget. As we learn again to appreciate our health care system!
Calcutta was also a very nice Time for me, so I met many Volunteers at work and we had a very nice time miteinader. The Japanese have learned to appreciate as I SEGR lovely, quiet man.
After eight days, I am moved up with Dan, an American, the train to Varanasi.
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