Today was another pretty laid back, but good day. We got some good news today – we’re finally going to be starting our hands on experience! Ramkumar (the manager of the PT department) gave us a copy of the assessment form that they use for initial assessments and asked us to assess two children each (not new patients, just existing ones) that we will then be treating and following for the rest of our time here. Its not quite the caseload that we would have in Canada, but its definitely a start and an improvement! I’m pretty happy with how this is turning out.
For our second last classroom observation we were in the open basic education classroom. It was really neat –we happened to be there during their English lesson, which was fun. The kids are all so fascinated by us – when we were leaving, and the teacher told them to wave goodbye they all called out “bye aunties!” It was adorable! I seem to have gained many honourary nieces and nephews!
In the afternoon we were back in the PT department doing more Tardieu testing for their database. That went smoothly also. We are starting to get into a routine, and getting faster at doing the assessment. We managed to get 3 kids done - in total we’ve done 4 out of the 34 eligible kids. We’ve started rewarding the kids that we’re testing with stickers (or pens/pencils if they’re older) and that seems to be a big hit J
After work we headed back into Thiravanmyuir (again!) to pick up Priyanka’s tailoring, and to buy a bucket to do our dishes in (we bought some plastic bowls, spoons and cups to eat with). We caught an auto rickshaw back just before dark for a bargain of 20 INR (50 cents Canadian!)
Another update in the saga that is our mobile telephone. This evening, while trying to make an outgoing call, we got a message saying that our documentation was not valid, and that our phone service was being terminated. Man were we ever mad…it seems that the place we’d gotten the SIM card from (same sketchy place that ripped us off for minutes) had sold us the phone without caring if we had the proper documentation, just so that they could take our money for the card and the minutes. Right now we are still able to receive calls (for some unknown reason), we just can’t make any calls. Thank goodness for Skype and the internet.
Tonight has been a pretty relaxing night. I caught up on some emails, talked to my Mom and Opa on Skype, and finished my book (Julie and Julia – highly recommend!). Now Priyanka and I are curling up to watch another episode of ER on my computer, and then we’ll probably head to bed shortly thereafter. Last night was a really hot night, so neither of us slept super well, so it will be nice to have an early night.
Hope you’re all doing well!
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