Rain Rain Go Away

It's raining outside. The weather has been great and I solely attribute this rain to our constant appraise of how nice the weather is. Today is going to be our first relaxing day. We have many errands to run. All of our material is finished so right now we are in the process of translating, editing, printing, and setting up our appointments in schools and clinics. This is the boring administrative part but in India that can be the roughest. For translation we are working with a center that trains operators at call centers on how to speak English! We are hoping that for payment we can teach the English accent at call centers. How sweet would that be? We slowly upload our materials to the blog so you can see them. I am starting by posting our motto (above left). It was graciously professionally designed by Lotus and Ash Design (Jeff's sister). It will be both a poster in itself and on all of our documents. The other logo is one I unartistically designed and that will be on the back of our pamphlets.
Also our new target population is 6-8th graders however the purpose of our study will be to find out exactly when these kids are begining to get exposure to gutka. We originally thought that paan (a delicious candy stuffed leaf) was causing all the oral cancer however have learned that in the 90's a new product called gutka was created. It looks like sand but tastes like a desert and is filled with carcinogens. Apparently it is more addictive that nicotine and we have shifted our focus to it.
That is enought detail on our project for now. Today India plays Pakistan in cricket. Being that I am the only one with a full understanding of the sport, I am going to teach everyone the rules. I am excited as I am sure all of India is! Go India!