The Pool

This weekend was nice and relaxing. It was almost an escape from reality......the pool by the CMC college campus. With palm trees, a blue swimming pool, western toilets, pizza with cheese, french fries, coke, and grass, real grass, was a nice escape from the dirt roads and the honking of the cars, motorcycles, mopeds, rickshaws, bicycles, and buses! Codi and I spent the entire day at the pool on Sunday along with some other international students we met the previous night at a hotel roof top restaurant. One is a Urologist attending starting up this fall in Baltimore. Another two were doing research here in Vellore, one from Sweden and the other from Denmark. Then there are two girls doing their endocrinology fellowship elective at the CMC hospital. There were a bunch of other international students there too. So this week we start I&D, infectious disease.