Day 2

Since we are in India, we decided to be late for our start this morning.  Follow that with a visit from the local TV station and the chief of police for the dedication of the medical camp, and it was a bit after our hoped starting time.  Then, lunch was delayed thanks to the caterer.  As a result, we saw fewer kids today than we had hoped.

But those kids...the littlest ones in Lower Kindergarten who have no idea what to expect...evidently there was a rumor going around the lower classes that the kids would be receiving inoculations.  This year we have 5 medical people doing the exams, and Dr. John is "on call" for anything they have questions about.  This works very well, and will have to tomorrow when we will be seeing about 60% of the kids.  

I was asked today to prompt the examiners to "speed things up a bit".  Let's just say that helpful suggestion was, oh, not met with universal positive response.  It is always a very tight rope to walk, you want to do everything you can for the kids, but you can really only spend a fairly short time with them.  And, as Jessica mentioned: "Every one of them has like 9 things wrong with them".  And we didn't have any parents show up today, they usually add significant time to the exam.  "Well, 2 years ago he coughed."

The team is incredible.  The Flatland group and TEAM India has melded perfectly.  Every job got done today, and was covered with excellence.  I had various jobs during the day, from plotting heights and weights to exchanging dollars for rupees to being interviewed on an Indian TV station.  We got a little shopping done, and decided to eat Italian for dinner.  

It is now Tuesday morning here, the internet decided to go down last night when I was working on this, so it is getting out later than usual.  Today we need to see the remainder of the kids at the first school, so it will be a very busy day.  Meeting the team for breakfast soon, so will close.  Update tonight, technology permitting.

Stan