Jet lag, shmet shmag.

I'm here! Yall, this is one crazy adventure! It's been a day, and I already wonder..where do I start??

I spent most of my flights comatose (thank you Tylenol PM!). In the Delhi airport, I must have looked absolutely lost, because a very nice Indian guy that goes to Ohio State asked me if I needed help - I am SO thankful, because he was pretty much my tour guide through the Delhi airport, the last leg of my flight, customs, etc. Also offered to show me all around the city, invited me to his family's home for dinner - India is welcoming!

I settled in with one of the other interns last night - a long shower has never felt so good! I am in sensory overload. I've never experienced this kind of HEAT. The poverty is striking, but the wealth is similarly so. Traffic is insane - what looks like a 2-lane road to me has 6-7 cars jammed across, along with bikers and pedestrians. People drive on the left here - I keep on looking the wrong way before I cross the street! (also on the left, interestingly, are the toilet flusher things.). There are stray dogs everywhere, and a few stray cows. I'll try to take pictures soon, hold me to that!

If you, dear reader, are the praying kind: this morning as I walked to the office, I passed a baby, maybe 3 months old, on the sidewalk. By herself, wrapped in some fabric, on the dirty sidewalk inches from the gutter. The girl I was walking with saw my face and told me that the mother is in her early teens and just doesn't know what to do with the baby. She pointed out to me that the mother was nearby, just across the street at a food stand. Keep this little family in your thoughts, ok? I have this intense longing to be able to help them somehow.

XOXOXOXOXO!