Landing... and standing

Well, I made it to Bangalore without any complications... I'm staying at a guesthouse of the hosting institution, St. John's Medical College and met up with my PI, Julian, yesterday morning. Not much jet lag, but am still a bit mixed up. I have these crashes every few hours where it takes all my energy to not fall asleep.

Yesteday we met up with a med student who will be assisting us named Shilpa. We fired up the PM monitor and took it for a test drive while visiting potential monitoring sites in a middle-income area and also a slum area. We have a few good ideas but securing the monitors will be the most difficult part, so the second part of the day was spent with a local machinist designing a lock box for the monitor. These monitors will basically be on a rooftop from August unitl I return in December and need to be discrete and weatherproof. We'll be inspecting out prototype later today. Julian and i are still working through our monitoring protocol so that we can get at our research from all angles. In the next couple days we should have a basic gameplan and begin with some monitoring.

So far, so good. The project has gotten of to a good start and we are finding we have plenty of support. I'm loving the food, though every meal is a bit of surprise since I never know what I am ordering. It may be a bit tricky getting some pictures up, but I'll see what i can do.