Yet another network outage, and again I then have time to blog. :) I am starting to feel more at home here now that Judy is here and my life feels a little more "normal". We went over to the clinic the other day, and Jude got her second Hep A/B shot, and that went well. It is odd to me that it cost almost as much as the ER visit - I would suppose that the cost of the drug itself caused that, because it has to be imported from the US and therefore has to be costed at that level... Interesting that the drug itself is probably between $20-$30 US, and the rest of the payment in the US would be overhead...
It is my hope that we can do something fun this weekend, as my foot is now pretty much back to normal - not that I am interested in dropping anything on it for the distant future, but it doesn't hurt me to walk on it at all anymore. It is odd, because I still don't know much what "to do" in this country other than shopping, which isn't exactly my total happiness, but we'll have to see. It seems pitiful to me that I am in such a beautiful country and am having trouble getting out to sightsee.
I think a lot of that inhibition is the fact that we have yet to find an intrepreter to go with us, and it still feels like I am imposing on folks here to go with us out wandering. Maybe we can hitch a ride one of the days this weekend with the driver Moses, whom is absolutely wonderful, and speaks good English and Hindi. (Well, along with I think 3 other languages.) It is interesting to me how different our trip would be if we had a driver or interpreter that spoke English well. Most of our hessitancy is due to our driver speaking VERY little English, and the trouble this causes getting anywhere, let alone getting back home once we are "there". Hopefully when Judy is done with her class for the summer we can get someone to translate for us and the sightseeing enjoyment will get even better. In some ways, until Judy is done being a stay at home studier, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have someone there to speak English and watch her read... :)
I am beginning to think that really hitting the studying in Hindi may be a good solution as well. Perhaps a longer term solution at any rate, and would promote the whole new fun of being able to chew out merchants who discuss in Hindi charging the foriegners more money because they don't know any better.
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Yay, it's Joel! Glad your foot is feeling better. I once had a Spanish teacher say that if you are going to another country you have to learn to say numbers if nothing else because then you'll know if they are cheating you.
Good luck learning Hindi. Maybe your co-workers can teach you some useful words.
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