Today was day 3 working at the IICP (yesterday was a holiday), so far this week we have been doing classroom, treatment and feeding assessment observations. The kidies are adorable and full of smiles when they see us, they call us "Aunty" . We are hoping that next week, after a week of observation, we will get to do more hands on stuff. We've been told that for our assigned child we will have to go through the various different assessments (physical, seating, feeding, handwriting etc...) and then make recommendations...at least that's what we think, but to be honest we are not totaly sure...half the time we don't catch what is being said :-/ On Thursdays we get to work either in the outpatient clinic (I was there today) where parents bring in their kids for assessment and treatment recommendations, or in the baby clinic (Kim was there today). Next week we also start hydrotherapy.
As far as non OT stuff...on Tuesday afternoon we took the bus (all by ourselves!!!) down the street then walked into New Alipore where we found the yoga studio the girls went to last year, we inquired and are going to go to our first session tonight! The yoga institute is apparently the 3rd oldest yoga studio in India so it should be pretty interesting :) Yesterday we went out with the 3 other girls staying here at the Institute (they are from Shillong in North-East India) to go shopping. We bussed down to the mall which was fun in itself, there is so much going on along the streets it is impossible to take it all in...India is a sensory overload, I have never seen, smelt or heard so much in my life! The mall was very interesting...once inside you could easily forget that you were in India, it was just like any other mall you'd see in North America...well except that they make you go through metal detectors at the entrance and check your bags in every store, sometimes giving you a ticket which says that you have a camera in your bag...then give you back your camera...not sure what the purpose of this was?)After the mall we took the bus down to a huge street market, which neither one of us can remember the name of (despite being told at least 4 times). It was so neat to see, the stalls were lined up along the sidewalks and seemed to go on and on, I don't think we even covered 1/2 of the market. We were the only two foreigners in there lol.
This weekend we are going to volunteer at Mother Theresa's on Saturday morning, then we are going to check out some of the sights in Kolkata, including Victoria Memorial.
We'll update you again soon...and try to get some pics uploaded too!
Rachel xo
As far as non OT stuff...on Tuesday afternoon we took the bus (all by ourselves!!!) down the street then walked into New Alipore where we found the yoga studio the girls went to last year, we inquired and are going to go to our first session tonight! The yoga institute is apparently the 3rd oldest yoga studio in India so it should be pretty interesting :) Yesterday we went out with the 3 other girls staying here at the Institute (they are from Shillong in North-East India) to go shopping. We bussed down to the mall which was fun in itself, there is so much going on along the streets it is impossible to take it all in...India is a sensory overload, I have never seen, smelt or heard so much in my life! The mall was very interesting...once inside you could easily forget that you were in India, it was just like any other mall you'd see in North America...well except that they make you go through metal detectors at the entrance and check your bags in every store, sometimes giving you a ticket which says that you have a camera in your bag...then give you back your camera...not sure what the purpose of this was?)After the mall we took the bus down to a huge street market, which neither one of us can remember the name of (despite being told at least 4 times). It was so neat to see, the stalls were lined up along the sidewalks and seemed to go on and on, I don't think we even covered 1/2 of the market. We were the only two foreigners in there lol.
This weekend we are going to volunteer at Mother Theresa's on Saturday morning, then we are going to check out some of the sights in Kolkata, including Victoria Memorial.
We'll update you again soon...and try to get some pics uploaded too!
Rachel xo
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