Namaste again!
Our team is back in India once again to continue doing field research for our project. Since there are lots of people wondering what we are doing here this time, we have decided to chronicle our trip again with our blog.
So what have we been up to for the past three and a half months?
For the most part we have all been busy working on our two or three projects, taking classes, and fitting in the occasional time to sleep. At some point during this time we narrowed down the focus for our global project and realized that there was still more research we wanted to do in India. Luckily, we were able to work with our Medtronic partners and our CBID advisors to plan another trip to India, so here we are.
In order to maximize our time in India, we all decided it would be best to leave as soon as possible following our final presentations of the semester. For some of us, that meant that we left before we could take our finals, but thankfully our professors were all understanding and have worked with us to figure out how we can take them while over here. So after some logistical planning and ensuring that we had places to go and stay when in India, we booked our tickets for December 10. Unfortunately, Maddie had already booked her ticket home to Australia for our winter break, which is Australia's summer break, so it is just Dhananjay, Erin, and Shruthi back in India and ready to learn more.
Back to India
Our flight was scheduled for 10:00am on December 10. Naturally, we all wanted to sleep on the first 13 hour leg of the trip, so we all decided to pull an all-nighter the night before in hopes that we could crash on the plane. For some of us this worked out and for the rest we are stil working on recovering from jet-lag. Nevertheless, we made it to Dubai, had a not-so-quick 5 hour layover, and then headed on our next 4 hour plane ride to Kolkata where our trip begins.
Our team is back in India once again to continue doing field research for our project. Since there are lots of people wondering what we are doing here this time, we have decided to chronicle our trip again with our blog.
So what have we been up to for the past three and a half months?
For the most part we have all been busy working on our two or three projects, taking classes, and fitting in the occasional time to sleep. At some point during this time we narrowed down the focus for our global project and realized that there was still more research we wanted to do in India. Luckily, we were able to work with our Medtronic partners and our CBID advisors to plan another trip to India, so here we are.
In order to maximize our time in India, we all decided it would be best to leave as soon as possible following our final presentations of the semester. For some of us, that meant that we left before we could take our finals, but thankfully our professors were all understanding and have worked with us to figure out how we can take them while over here. So after some logistical planning and ensuring that we had places to go and stay when in India, we booked our tickets for December 10. Unfortunately, Maddie had already booked her ticket home to Australia for our winter break, which is Australia's summer break, so it is just Dhananjay, Erin, and Shruthi back in India and ready to learn more.
Back to India
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| Linda, Dhananjay, David, Shruthi, and Erin at the airport. Linda and David were also going back to India to work on their global health project, so we all got to travel together. |
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