Today started with a handful of us taking on the foggy dirt road for our usual morning run, which ended with my chatting with a group of local students who were interested in my running watch and my goofy dance moves. I was eventually saved by a group of women who dispersed the kids off to theor school day.
My morning was spent in the OB ward where I helped the nurse place an IV line and Foley catheter (a great time to brush up on my old nursing assistant skills!). Afterwards a few of us went to the operating theater to watch a c-section — everything went smoothly!
We meandered back up to the house where we met up with a visiting group from Augustana Lutheran Church. At first it seemed there wouldn’t be enough space on their bus for a few of us to join the visitors on an excursion to a nearby village, Image, but luck was on our side and Meghan, Michael, and myself were able to swipe the three available seats!
On the way to the village, we made a brief stop at a dispensary where the people from Augustana asked questions and took a look around while we dropped off a box of medicines. We then continued our bumpy journey along the worn dirt road to Image. After passing many fields and a few donkeys, we turned down a quite avenue towards a school. As we passed through the gate, our bus was greeted by the whole student assembly who were in song and dance. It was a warm and beautiful introduction of the school to the visitors! The students then departed for lunch while we followed the headmaster on a tour and information meeting about the school.
Quick caveat: I’ve been living in Italy for the past 3-ish years for medical school so I’m a bit out of touch with the Minnesota culture. It was a full-on teimmersion experience for me, ripe with idioms and colloquialisms that I haven’t heard in ages!! Offda now don-cha know how delightful that sure was!!
Our return trip was somehow more rocky than the trip there but the panoramas of this area of the world are incredible. The children of the area were also on their way home from school so there was lots of waving a hollering, exchanging greetings in Swahili and English.
We topped off the evening with a movie night with the nursing school students. We brought them popcorn & a recently acquired bag of dum-dum lollipops. Due to technical difficulties we started the movie late and didn’t even make it through the whole film before calling it a night.
As we moseyed our way home, hopefully many took the opportunity to check out the clear and brilliant starry night sky!!
Baadae!
Kelsey
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