The First Day: Part Two

            The best way to understand the hospital is to look at the hospitals design. One can tell a lot from a place by its décor. The Indiana University  Health Arnet Hospital is no different.

The outside is a light color. The walls are somewhere between yellow and white. I do not know why I keep volunteering at yellow service locations. (Look at first post) Luckily I do not think that this location will be as depressing as Maryhaven was. However looks may be deceiving.

As I described in my last post, getting to this location would make the Iditarod look like a walk in the park. To make matters worse, the buses are all on a schedule so that I have less than a five minute window between each arrival and departure that I need to get to. So if I miss one then the whole trip is completely messed up. This is especially true for the last bus I need to take because it goes on a forty minute schedule and the rest are on a thirty minute one. The bus use to get right up to the front of the hospital. However it was deemed to be unnecessary due to a lack of passengers. Now the nearest bus stop is a mile and half away.

So that first day I walked there was not the easy trip of my entire life. The overpass was slicked by the snow and next to impossible to get over since there is no sidewalk. SO not only is the nearest bus almost 2 miles away, there is not even a sidewalk to make this trek less difficult.  The walk alone almost made me want to quit the whole thing and get a different location. However I kept going and it was most likely the most miserable walk of my life.

In my next post I will discuss more of the hospital's interior decor of the hospital.