Our first volunteer group has been BYU Nursing Study Abroad.
There is a lot of estrogen all over the place but it honestly has been really
fun—and I sincerely mean that. I guess there are still a few more weeks left
with them so maybe I shouldn't speak so soon, but I am sure if anything changes
I will have to emotionally vomit it here anyway so maybe to be continued?
Hopefully not though……..
One of the BYU students had a birthday last week so we
bought a cake for her. I wrote down her
name for the bakery—Jessie—but the cake came back JesHi. We had a good laugh
over that one. She is now permanently JesHi to us.
The only bummer with the nurses being here is that they went
out on a few overnight trips to some of the colonies that are farther away, and
I didn’t get to go with because I have had work to do on campus. The work on
campus has been good though. One of the biggest jobs I had this past week was
getting the dental clinic inventory together and organized. I love all the new
stuff I am learning, but it was nice to have a project that I was familiar
with.
Oh and the rickshaw driver dropped us off a couple of
streets over from the church this afternoon, so I had to cross two major roads
in Chennai-the big city-on foot today. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t
scared at all. It was kind of intense not knowing what will be coming at you next;
cow, bus, car, rickshaw, motorcycle, other people, etc. But I survived. I never
thought I would feel so triumphant over crossing the street but man do I ever
feel triumphant.
