Glimpses...

I thought I’d give you a few glimpse into our lives at HCH.


These are the monkeys that frequent our campus. I’ve seen them here twice, now. They seem to come in groups of 15-20 and just hang out in our trees. (or eat micsellanous pieces of trash laying around)


This is a picture of the road that leads to the hospital campus. (I’m standing with my back to the campus). If you look on the left hand side of the photo, you will see a lady in a turquoise-ish colored suit with big pink polka dots on it. Just behind her, you can sort of make out a purple chair. That chair is at the chai stand that I visit every so often to hang out with Joyce, Ruma and Salu. Their chai is great…not lack for calories, though. :) This is also where I got roped into wearing a sari.


Here we have Dr. Lehmann’s old house. I’m not sure if he lived in the whole thing, or what. On the other side of the blue windows in the center of the picture is our room. The bottom level is broken up into apartments and several staff members live down there.

This is a funny story. So on our first day here, somehow we mistakenly thought Dr. Lehmann’s old house was the former Lehmann Hospital. With a little time on our hands, we went exploring. Well, actually, Clint went exploring. I just tagged along. We found all kinds of nooks and crannies in that place.

All of the sudden, we came across a locked door. (here is a grave difference between Clint and I) When I come to a locked door, I think.. “hmmm…it must be locked for a reason, let’s go somewhere else.” Clint, on the other hand, sees a locked door and can’t resist the temptation of knowing what is behind the door. So he starts yanking and pulling on the door, trying to open in, while I stand there fretting…almost sure we’re going to tick someone off. Bang. Bang. Thunk. Yank. Before we knew what was happening, a face appeared in the door window. My heart rate probably doubled. Here we are, only our 3rd day in India, can’t speak a lick of Hindi and we get caught trying to break into someone’s apartment! Thankfully, the apartment belonged to a resident named Geom who is one of the best natured guys here and someone who has become a very good friend.


This is a little hole-in-the-wall shop behind the hospital where Clint comes for snacks, an occasional Limeca and bread omelets. I myself have found a treasure here… COLD bottles of water for only 12 Rupees (which is between 25-30 cents) for a 1 liter bottle. Amazing.


And finally, this is Conner. He is Jeff & Janet’s 3rd child. Conner has a flying backpack….that shoots out fire…and is made of cardboard.

I’ve been spending my mornings over with Janet, helping as she home schools their kids. The kids are so much fun to be with!