Yesterday I was at Linda in the morning again. There were so many mothers with their babies to get weighed! It was insane! It's because it's the end of the month so they all are trying to get their babies weighed before November (because they have to get them weighed every month). After the appointments, the diagnosis and treatment of every patient is written in the register book. I got to help do that for a while. It was kind of hard because doctors here have terrible handwriting, just like in the States. I think it would be easier to recognize [View Full Entry]

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Monday was back to projects. And guess what??? We have wheat bread at the house now! Yay! Better for toast! Monday morning I was at Linda Clinic. At the clinics we’re only in the outpatient area so we don’t really see any of the wards with the sick people. I want to see if I can shadow a clinical officer one day to get the real experience. In the afternoon I was at Maramba Old People’s Home for the first time. It isn’t the nicest place in the world, and the rooms are small, but it isn’t bad and there are [View Full Entry]

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Ready for the rest? Here goes... So Saturday morning we were supposed to leave at 5 am to go to Hwange National Park so that we could go on our game drive in the afternoon. However, the truck wouldn’t start. Some kind of problem with the engine. Our driver worked on it for a while and then the Antelope Park mechanic ended up having to take it to his workshop. At 9:30 am we finally left. I’m not exactly sure what the problem was, but I know that the solution involved have a Coke can connected to some wires. Only in [View Full Entry]

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We're back from Zimbabwe safe and sound! Basically it was amazing! Amazing! Spectacular, crazy, fun, and amazing! Okay so let's see how long it takes to tell you all about it... So we were supposed to leave at 5:30 so that we could be at the border at 6 when it opened. We got our first glimpse of the rest of the trip by leaving late. Then it took a couple hours at the border because for some reason it takes forever to get the truck through. We were in a big truck with open sides/windows. It looked like a regular [View Full Entry]

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So it hasn't been long since my last entry so not terribly much has happened. Monday I had Libuyu Clinic (the unorganized one) in the morning. There is a guy who works there who is supposed to do registration and find the books for the patients. And we're supposed to take their vitals. But he doesn't; he expects us to do it instead. If we really can't find a book he'll help look but otherwise not. He sits there and watches soccer on tv. And he's getting paid! Extremely annoying! Gaaaahhh! In the afternoon I had reading club for the first [View Full Entry]

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I'm really glad I'm doing this project! It's a good organization, well-organized, and it's good to help out where help is really needed! So Wednesday I was at Linda Clinic again. And it was baby day! Once a week each clinic has baby day where the mothers bring their under 5 children to the clinic to get weighed and immunized. Each baby is supposed to get weighed every month. There were 3 volunteers at the clinic so I got to help with the babies while the others took vitals of the other patients. At first I was just recording and graphing [View Full Entry]

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Saturday evening we started out by going right down the street to Fez Bar. It's pretty nice and has a big outside area where it's cooler, which was good because there were almost 30 of us. Then Corianne, Lynnett, Yara, Tom, Felix, Sarah, Leony, Lieke, and I went to Fairmont, a club at a hotel in town. It wasn't very big and some of the music was...interesting...but we made it fun! Some of the African men like to be a little too friendly though. Sunday we went back to the Zambezi Sun all day and just relaxed in the sun and [View Full Entry]

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This morning Hillary, Madeleine, Jen and I went to the falls! We went to Livingstone Island in the Zambezi River right above the falls. The view is better from the Zimbabwe side because then you are looking across at the falls. We were looking from the side and from right above. First we went to a point to the left side of the falls and got a nice side view. Then we went swimming in a natural pool right above the falls. At one point the guide held our legs and we lay on the rocks in the water right on [View Full Entry]

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After I last talked to you I spent the afternoon doing sports coaching at Livingstone Primary School. We started out with a bunch of different futbol drills until we were slightly sunburned and highly overheated. Then we just let them play futbol for the last little bit because that's what they really wanted to do anyway and we sat in the shade and played with some of the younger kids and talked to one of the teachers. There was one little boy who was 2 or 3 years old who really enjoyed rolling a soccer ball around so I played with [View Full Entry]

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I'm in Africa! My 6th continent! Only Antarctica left... :) I flew from India through Dubai. In Kolkata at the gate they had a phone where you could make local calls for free so I got to call my dad at the hotel and let him know that I made it. In Dubai I slept for a while on the floor and ate some food. Emirates Airlines has a restaurant where depending on how long your stopover is you can get a snack or meal or multiple meals for free. So I got a snack. In Jo'burg I was basically just [View Full Entry]

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