Thank you India. We love you too.

"Today India kicked me in the ass." -Carly Miller
I woke up early this morning to get ready for our first day of work at the Christian Medical Center. I decided I'd go big for the first day and actually dry my hair for the first time since arriving in India. So I found my nifty little adapter, attached hair dryer plugger to adapter and proceeded to plug adapter/plugger combo into bathroom outlet. and BOOM. The electricity blows out for the entire fourth floor of the Darling Residency Hotel. Thank you India. We love you too.
After sorting out hotel explosions and other issues the Vellore Four proceeded the the CMC for our "orientation". Proceeding the CMC was a bit of an ordeal, however, as the streets in India have no names and no one in the town seems to know where to find a map or any of the cardinal directions for that matter. And thus, it took approximately 3 hours for the Vellore Four to find a building 5 kilometers from our hotel. Thank you India. After locating the medical school office (see attached totally gorgeous photo of this place) we were told by the director that we would need to walk down the street to the "photo studio" to obtain a passport photo. This deceivingly simple task took the Vellore four approximately 2 hours due to said "photo studio" owner being out to brunch until 5pm and said "photo studio" owner's twin brother with a similar business establishment down the block and extremely difficult to locate as it resides upstairs above the "Freshest Chicken" stand. (which was a little too fresh for my taste...see attached pic). So anyhow I won't bore you with anymore details but lets just say in general it was a day of the run arounds which ended with the foursome trying to walk from the hospital to the historic Vellore Fort for a little end of the day field trip. After feeling lost and certain we were miles and miles from the tourist joint we grabbed an autorickshaw man to drive us. He assured us this would be a high priced ride as the fort was quite a long distance away. We jumped in, he drove 100 yards, turned left, and we realized we'd been fooled. There was the fort. And there went 50 rupees. Once again,Thank you India.
On a positive note, we have made a large breakthrough in communication lines with the Indians. The Vellore Four have had much confusion over the side to side head movement of the Indian people in response to any question posed to them. Our guide book, however has really cleared this up for us. It reads as follows: " It's also worth noting that the commonly used sideways wobble of the head doesn't necessarily mean 'no'. It can translate to : yes, maybe, or I have no idea." Yeah. Really cleared things up alot.
And so to India...yeah. We get it. You showed up big today. You brought your game. But it's not over. The Vellore Four will be back tomorrow. And we're bringing the curry. And its the really spicy kind.