Tonight I’m not using my laptop to create this entry. Instead, I am using my iPad. I decided not to take my laptop to India tomorrow – only my iPad. Yes, I’m traveling to India tomorrow, Thursday. With six other dental specialists and residents, we are flying from Kathmandu to Delhi. We are staying one night in Delhi to attend a big dental expo there. Then on Friday we are taking a microbus to Agra where we will be attending a big dental traumatology conference. We will return to Kathmandu late on Tuesday.
Using my iPad for these entries is a bit cumbersome, consequently I may only have some minimal postings until I get back to my laptop next week. This experience is giving me new respect for my former resident, Dr. Grant Burgdorf. Impressively, Grant wrote his entire master’s thesis on an iPad (with a Bluetooth keyboard),
In Dhulikhel this morning, it was the first day in the past month here that has not been a sunny morning. However, the clouds quickly burned off and it was a warm beautiful afternoon.
I saw this huge rat as I was walking to school. Too bad my Dallas backyard semi-feral cat, Scout, isn’t here… She could handle this rat!
I started my day participating in the orthodontic resident’s case presentation seminar. It reminded me tremendously of all of the endodontic resident case presentation seminars that I have participated in.
Dr. Kafle wore the Texas A&M College of Dentistry hat that I brought him.
At lunch, Nis had a fruit salad: watermelon and papaya. I hadn’t seen that here before for lunch. Manisha and Siras also had some food items I had not previously seen. I just had rice and dal bhat.
The soldiers building the helipad are nearly done. In this photo today, they are painting it. Although I thought that the intent was for medevac transport, today I learned it’s so the Prime Minister can fly his helicopter in here for tomorrow’s convocation ceremony. I’m disappointed that I’ll miss that big event.
Early this afternoon, I drove into Kathmandu with Dr. Kafle. We passed an interesting scene of people walking along the road it. It was a funeral procession. What appeared to be pallbearers were carrying a stretcher. On the stretcher was a deceased individual covered with a colorful fabric overlay. Dr Kafle explained that they were taking that body down to the river where they would burn it and put the ashes into the river.
Dr Kafle dropped me off at the Fulbright Nepal office. They’ve had my passport for more than two weeks now. They needed it to get my extended Nepal visa. I was a little nervous, because I need my passport to travel to India tomorrow, and I will need my Nepal visa to get back into Nepal on Tuesday. At 4 o’clock today, as promised, my passport and visa were delivered to me. I took up a Pathao from the Fulbright office to my guest house. It’s almost 6 o’clock now, so I’ll head downstairs and have some soup for dinner. It’s dark outside now, this is the view looking out my guest house room window an hour ago.
Namaste
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