On the road to recovery...

I'm finally feeling better after a short bout of the flu (and I have a lot to write on after my visit to the Taj Mahal and Micro-finance Conference in Dehli but I don't have time at the moment).  Despite the fact that I am used to cold weather, I also fell susceptible to the sudden and abnormal change in weather here.  It is actually raining and gray (like Seattle!) and my host family told me it hasn't rained this time of year in Jodhpur in fifty years! The weather has made many people ill, but after watching a few of the other interns get worse from the Indian medicine, which were basically sedatives, I decided torough it and beat my illness the natural way.  Some cultural medications I couldn't escape, however, such as it's bad to take a shower at night.  After I had been on a seven hour bus ride and walked through muddy streets, it was hard for me to accept that a shower was not a good idea, but I guess the definition of good and bad is culturally dependent!  Pictures and more comments coming soon...