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Hey hey everyone in beautifulPDX home of the BLAZERS!!! I hope everyone is going to the games cheering their lungs right out of your chests, bursting your bronchioles and such.
Anyway where was I? The end of last week I think…We saw the birth of twin boys on Diwali Eve (Indian Christmas eve) it was amazing. One was a breech birth and the other had the umbilical cord wrapped around it's neck. Of course Dr. Gera got them out in record time and then stopped the post-partum hemmorage. People in India try really hard to have babies on Diwali because its auspicious or whatever and they have to have boys in order for the father to go to heaven or something like that so to have twin boys on Diwali is like a blessing from Lord Rama, or Ganesh or Shiva (one of those 1,000 gods).
This weekend Katie and I went to Agra to see the one and only Taj Mahal. We got the last bus out, the rest were sold out. It was a whopping 200 rupees aka 4 us dollars. The whole bus was full of men and there was no a/c so I was sweating my ass off. Everyone is short in India so there is no leg room, my feet were asleep , there was a metal rod right under my butt and the guy next to me had the worst body odor ever. Needless to say it was my 4th time getting molested in India and it was almost worth It to see the Taj Mahal. We also saw Agra Fort, the Baby Taj and Akbar's Masoleum. The Agra Fort was my second favorite. It was just like a castle with a moat and drawbridge. I hope most of you can see my pictures on facebook.Anyway there is an equisite water works in the fort with fountains, water slides and outdoor baths, along with secret staircases and passageways.After all this we had to go to a coffee shop and get grilled paninis and frappucinos- sometimes you just have to in India. Haha. So we got a bus back to Dehradun and it turned out to be cancelled. So we had to hang out at the nasty bus stop with a million nasty men staring at us and sand flies biting us all over the place. Now I know why women wear burquas and sarees here! I am on the hunt for a burqua so I don't get stared at anymore. Sorry- that was a tangent. So we got on our non a/c sleeper class bus to Haridwar where we had to find a bus to Dehradun which took another 2 hours. In India they make you pay for the squat toilets with no soap, running water, tp, etc. It costs extra for cockroaches too- haha just kidding.
So yesterday was Diwali and we went to Dr. Joshi's house all day and played with his babies and ate sweets. This is the fullest I have been in months haha. They have lots of ceremonies with candles and incense which we were included in. We even got the little red dots on our foreheads. They set off lots of fireworks and instead of "killer bees" or "Light Fountains" like we have in the states they name their fireworks "Adolf Hitler", "Atomic Bomb" and "Hydrogen Bomb" haha and that's what they sound like too!!! They light these off from 6am to 2am and they are still going off a whole day later.
Well I hope this gave you a nice little taste of my Indian travels and clinicals. I miss you all, Happy Halloween, Happy Voting (for Obama) and GO BLAZERS. Blow some kisses at my husband Joel Przybilla #10. Xoxo from India
Namaste- Marci
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