Kathmandu

Hello everyone, yesterday was my first day here in Kathmandu in Nepal. I'm staying at Hotel Vajra with the group. It is a fairly nice hotel with a good breakfast. The power is not on during the day however, which means no charging or WIFI. The group seems pretty good, there are the two physicians leading the trip, an OBGYN and EM physician from UNM, 2 residents from UNM in EM and IM, 2 med students from UNM, me, and  4th year from Georgetown. Yesterday we met with the Ministry of Health here which was interesting, and then went to the US embassy to meat with the USAID. In the evening we had a touristy traditional Nepali dinner with dancers etc. I slept like a rock, still trying to get caught up on sleep. Though I was pretty fortunate on the way over, I had a whole to myself to stretch out and sleep on during the flight from Vancouver to Guangzhou. In Guangzhou I did not have to clear customs or anything, just was bused around on a convoluted international transfer. Basically just walked off the plane, onto a bus, up some stairs and onto the next plane, since my flight had been over 2 hours late leaving. Today we are going to meet with some NGOs, which should be interesting.