firstly, to ward off complaints: this isn't going to be a real blog, in the sense that i'm not going (to be able to) update it regularly. so! for those of you who are interested in my general well-being, my sporadic thoughts about india, and photos of my adventure (if i find a computer on which to upload them), this is where you can satiate yourself. if you have a dull job and read a lot of blogs, you can add this to your blog-routine list. (i'm looking at you, marisa p.t.)
i have lived in new york for 2 1/2 years now, and am very sick of it for a number of reasons (i promise i'm not ungrateful. i just tend to focus on the negative). there are thousands of people living on the same block ignoring each other. people flock here because everyone wants to be here, yet most people don't quite know why. i want to be in a place with so few people that you can't ignore a stranger; camping at bear mountain isn't cutting it anymore. i need some time to step outside of my life completely while i'm still afforded such an opportunity. secondly, i've become very fascinated with ophthalmology, and would be very interested in specializing in it should i end up in medical school some day.
this is my trip:
- 1/09-3/09 i am living in a living room in washington heights with some dear friends of mine, babysitting for two dear children, and being experimented on by some dear experimental social scientists.
- 3/1/09 i embark on a 65 hour train ride from new york to portland, OR. hopefully i'll meet someone (think before sunrise) worth running away with.
- 3/4/09-3/7/09 portland will be explored, and kristine stolakis' NC friend will be met.
- 3/7/09-3/10/09 seattle and (possibly) tacoma will be explored.
- 3/11/09-5/28/09 i will fly to delhi (straight through my twenty-first birthday), and then take a 12 hour bus up windy roads to ranikhet. then i'll go hiking and rafting for a long time in the land where gautama buddha once roamed. do not expect any updates between march 9th and june.
- 5/29/09-6/29/09 my friend kate ray will meet me after her semester in shanghai, and we will travel about india, ride camels, push our hot-food-envelope, and hopefully avoid any potential indian-pakistani fighting.
- 7/1/09-7/31/09 i will work at the uma eye clinic in chennai with unite for sight, forgetting all my hindi and rapidly learning tamil. if you haven't given me money for that endeavor yet, and you have a spare dollar, please do! i generally do not like health care NGOs because of their neo-colonial nature, cultural insensitivity, and haphazard volunteer programs, but UFS is one of the better organizations i've come across. for reasons that i'll explain later. just trust me on this one for now.
love,
harish-harry
oh my gosh. I was hoping to see you before you left. but you're leaving in, so few days.
ReplyDeleteif you have a mailing address at any point, let me know it!
IF! You send something to the following address at least two weeks prior to May 28th, I might receive it on May 28th. Otherwise, I am without a home base, and therefore without a mailing address.
ReplyDeleteDavid Corner
NOLS Semester in India
c/o Patna Sahib Tourist Co.
14 Nanakpura Commercial Plaza
Moti Bagh, New Delhi. 110 021 INDIA
Hope that works. I'll see you in August, Rae Charles. We should float down Narrow River again. I love you dearly.
Laser Eye Surgeryhas been performed at The Chiron 217 – C Lasik WorkStation integrated with the Hansatome with which we started our Lasik operations in 1997 was the first in India to be installed at that time at our centre. We are the best eye care hospital to perform Laser eye operations with top-class technologies, and the lasik eye surgery cost at The Eye Foundation is at affordable prices.
ReplyDeleteCataract Eye Surgery is the way toward eliminating a characteristic focal point and supplanting it with a fake focal point. There will be no edges and no other careful gear will be included during the medical procedure. Also, there will be no aggravation during laser cataract medical procedure in light of the fact that desensitizing eye drops are applied to your eye before the system.
ReplyDeleteSri Eye Care is an ultra-modern eye care facility, with best-in-class technologies that provide medical care to patients of all age groups.Eye Hospital in Bangalore provides world-class Eye care treatment for your eye-related problems. They offer both surgery and general treatment, such as regular check-ups, and eye tests. We take care of our patient's eye problems and provide the best eye care solution to them. We help our patients and make sure that they have healthy vision.
ReplyDelete