Hyderabad

Friday 4 pm. It is hard to believe that we will be flying to Delhi in 3 ½ hours. We have all enjoyed Hyderabad – our routine for the past two days was up by 7 am, out and about around 9 am to 2 or 3 pm, and then pool, homework, email, reading, and [...]

Emeline in Hyderabad, day 3

Today we went to a five hundred year old fort. It had 700 steps. I climbed them all. I was exhausted and had 2 diet cokes and had water because I was hot and tired. Julia and I took over 100 pictures. The fort was so tall. It was about 500 feet high. The steps [...]

Julia in Hyderabad, day 3

This Morning we went to a 500-year-old fort. It was the highest point in Hyderabad. We got a tour guide and started. Our tour guide didn’t speak very good English. There were 700 steps, so I got tired VERY quickly. It was very hot going up the steps. When the king and queen lived there, [...]

Brief trip to Apollo Hospital

Through Najeeb’s friend Dr. Pramod I was able to spend some time at Apollo Hospital the day we left Chennai. I gave a talk on the history of IM residency training in the US to a group of students and residents (and answered their questions about getting into residencies), and then had a tour. Apollo [...]

Emeline in Hyderabad, day 2

Today in Hyderabad we went to several places. We went out at nine in the mourning and went to a museum first. The museum was for a royal family. All of the things from their palace were in there. I liked going through one prince’s schoolbooks that taught him English. Also, many people were sitting [...]

Julia in Hyderabad, day 2

Today we did a lot of things. First we went to a famous art museum. A very rich man owned it. It had picrtures, paintings, and carved wooden statues. There was a famous marble statue called The Vail of Rebecca. Next we went to a place called Charminar. Charminar was built after a sickness left [...]

The Overnight Train from Chennai to Hyderabad

One of the things about international travel that makes it fun is the inevitable contrast of your ideas of about how things are going to be and how you find them. For the train ride from Chennai to Hyderabad- I envisioned us sitting in a train looking at the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh countryside [...]

Julia in Hyderabad, day 1

I survived the long train ride. Today we went to a giant statue if Buddha. It weighed over 315 tons. Then we went to a temple. I had to walk without shoes in the parking lot though the temple. I did not like taking of my shoes at all. By: Julia Armitage

Emeline in Chennai day 3

In the morning today Julia and I went shopping. We also went to a smoothie shop and both got delicious smoothies. I also tried two new fruits I have never heard of before. One was small and round, and you peel away the green peal and pop it in your mouth. I t was very [...]

Julia in Chennai, day 3

Today I went shopping. My dad’s friend took me. I got a sari. It’s pink with gold sequins. After shopping my dad’s other friend toke us out to lunch. Since I don’t like Indian food I ordered room service. Then Emeline and I went to the pool. The pool was fun. It has a waterfall! [...]