The beyond begins

Today has been our last day in sarenga. We cannot quite get our heads around it! We did our last baby checks this morning. It is odd that just 6 weeks ago I had only done a baby check on 2 babies before! 
Much of today has been spent in reflection (as well as packing). In many ways we could not have dreamed of a better elective experience. We have learnt so much about medicine and indian culture, had the opportunity to practice skills, been able to teach, to do clinical audit, to present our findings,  to make friends, to have fellowship and  to experience first hand the lives of modern medical missionaries. We  are both feelig incredibly blessed by the time that we have spent here and are so thankful for shubhro and Elisabeth having us. Reassuringly, they are also happy to have had us.

To mark our leaving, some of the students put on a small programme of things for us. Two of the girls sang, one danced and then we all danced in the local tribal fashion. I was roped in to doing a little bit of solo scottish dancing which was fun considering there was no scottish music! Neil and I are nearly experts in indian dancing now (or just feel like we are!). It was really touching for us that the girls did this for us and as we left we were being told to come back.

Tomorrow morning we rise early and get a train (from the station 2 hours drive away) to kolkatta and in the evening we head up to darjeeling. We will hopefully enjoy some cool weather in the mountains before going to the sunderbans in the south of west bengal. After that we become stereotypical indian tourists and head to the taj mahal and then see delhi. We aren't sure how much internet access will be had in the coming 2 weeks but we shall endeavour to keep this up to date.

For any of you particularly interested in our work here in sarenga, I am sure we will be both more than happy to speak with you when we are back but until then the hospital website can be found at www.ksnhospital.worspress.com

Please continue to pray for us particularly for our safety. Thank you

J x