The Pink City

We arrived in Jaipur, Rajastan about 3 hours ago on an air conditioned bus, thankfully. It took us five hours to get here from Delhi and we passed through some beautiful countryside as well as some really poor villages. Life must be so very difficult for these farmers who try to compete in this global economy and often fail.
We arrived at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) http://www.iihmr.org where we will spend the next week attending lectures and doing field work, all of which will culminate in a powerpoint presentation we are going to make based on our observations and work in the field.

Although we haven't seen too much of Jaipur just yet, it seems less chaotic than Delhi. Tomorrow we're going to venture off to explore the city and I will take pictures to post, as this institution has a sophisticated computer lab at our disposal.

IIHMR's hostel is also very nice, our rooms are modern, clean, and air conditioned, we are thanking our lucky stars. We do have lizards everywhere though and getting used to them running up and down our walls in our rooms is going be a challenge, but I have no doubt we'll get used it. We just had dinner, which was prepared just for us and it was quite delicious with a soup course, a chicken dish, baby eggplant dish and all the trimmings.