New room

Haha, I am online at my new room, using a friendly neighbour´s wireless internet connection :-) So, surfing with Firefox, I could upload some pictures to the last post, have a look.
Yesterday I moved to the place of Nena and Pankaj. Here´s life, people are talking, cooking and socialising which appearently my former landlady never did. I am just comming from some TV watching with them. It was an Indian movie and Pankaj described them in general: "usually 3 hours and at least 6 songs", right. I just enjoyed watching one hour: very colourful, very emotional and nice songs and dances (sometimes a bit like makarena) and I learned that even today no one marriages outside one caste.
The week was a bit boring, but today my supervisor took Johanna, our new intern and me to Copenhagen´s university to a 3 hour panel discussion on HIV/AIDS including him as one of the speakers. It was really interesting and the speakers had an argument on the claim that money is not anymore the problem for providing infected persons with medication but that the medical staff is missing, especially in developing countries. I learned the term "braindrain" which means that qualified health staff from developing countries decide to work in developed countries instead in their home coutries because of a better salary. Approximately 40.000 HIV- infected people worldwide are still waiting to be treated. Did you know that HIV cases are rising in western and eastern Europe in recent years (also in Germany)? And that 8.000 people world wide die from AIDS - every day?
Ok, that´s for now.
Take care and ABC (abstinence, being faithful to one faithful partner, condom use)
Vera