Last day in India! Wow, it can't be over already, can it? We have seen so much and yet seen so little at the same time. We leave in an hour to go to the airport. Today we were in Agra and went the the Taj Mahal. It was a five-hour trip there yesterday and 4 hours back today. I will put up some photos from Pune, Delhi, and Agra. More thoughts and observation later.

Our many thanks to Professor Bapa Jhala and his team and students, to the Alliance for Global Education in Pune, and SIT India for hosting us and showing us you beautiful country.
Dhanyavad!
Clara and Sara

Where do I begin again?
Since I wrote last, in Dhrangadhra we did many things: visited hospitals, talked to the students about their different projects; camped out in the desert overnight listening to the wind howl and watching the moon and then the sun rise over the desert; visited monuments to ancient battles of ancestors of Bapa Jhala's family and other ancient palaces of the family; visited temples; sat talking in the garden in the cool (well, cooler) early evenings. See the photos below.

What else? Well, Sara and I got sick too. The usual - diarrhea, but Dr. Patel, who we had met a previous day at the local public hospital, came to our room in the palace and diagnosed the problem. Thanks to the wonderful caring staff, we quickly had the right antibiotics and were soon on the mend.  The experience in Dhrangadhra was fascinating, surreal, educational, sometimes confusing but always fascinating.

We are now in Pune, where we have spent one and a half days. This leg of the journey has also been wonderful. But I'll have to save that for another day, as it is 12:00 midnight and Sara is trying to sleep.

The photos posted here: The castle where we are staying; a pediatrician at the government hospital: my room in the castle with Sara; some of the India staff at the castle.

I'm in Dhrangahra, India. A town in the desert about 3 hours from Ahmedabad. It's probably over 100 F outside but it's dry heat and not so bad because there's always a wind. But drinking lots of water is key.
Yesterday before arriving here we had a meeting in Ahmedabad with the Public Health Foundation of India. It was very interesting and I think there are good public health opportunities here for students and faculty to do research and program development. We met for about two hours and Bapa also attended and has invited the public health professionals to come to Dhrangahra for a site visit.

Today with Levani, one of our graduates students in public health, I went to a local government hospital in town. It was very interesting and I learned a lot. There might also be opportunities for medical students, and dental students and nursing students and social workers to come here as well. I have to go to one of the temples soon. I will try to write more later and add some photos, but the internet comes and goes.

We arrived after 30 hours. Nothing went as planned, but it all eventually went. Got in two hours later than expected at Ahmedabad and the hotel transport had left. We got an "exciting" but luckily uneventful taxi ride to the hotel in which for most of it we weren't sure if we were being taken to the hotel.  But it all worked!
EXHAUSTED!
Met many very friendly, helpful Indians on the flight.
All's well that ends well.
Have to go to sleep!
Love to all.