This is my last entry for the trip. Before I do any reflecting, let me first describe the place I am staying. It is on the east side of the island, right on the water. All the buildings have traditional thatched roofs. The roofs on the two larger buildings are very high and feel so…
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A Little Bit of This. A Little Bit of That.
Greetings from Zanzibar! I flew in yesterday to this lovely, laidback island. I finished my time in Nairobi with a visit to the Giraffe Centre on Saturday. It was established to protect and preserve the Rothschild giraffe, an endangered species. The Centre is very well laid out and, besides protecting the giraffe, they also have…
Connections
Wednesday and Thursday continued much like the other days – so very well. Each day has the morning and afternoon Uber hassle, the various patients, and mandazi for lunch. Faith has continued to involve me. I’ve given injections, pushed IV drugs, palpated a pregnant belly, and more. I have also enjoyed some good conversations with…
A Change of Fortune
Sunday night was my last night at my slum location. Rather ironically, some tiny flying gnats and a mosquito or two kept me up much of the night. With great relief, morning came, and I packed up all my stuff and grabbed an Uber to the clinic I’d been at on Friday. Now this clinic…
A Museum and Crafts
Time for the weekend update. Saturday and Sunday were days off so I was on my own. Saturday morning, I set out to visit a couple of places here. Uber is the preferred mode of transportation and it works quite well. My first stop was the Karen Blixen Museum. If the name does not ring…
Week One – Check
Thursday, I decided to start structuring things to fit me better. I had resolved to not get upset over the disappointing clinic. I liked the people there, and I am glad to have met them. So Thursday morning, after sitting for about two hours with no work and no patients, I decided to head back…
Out and About in Nairobi
A few general comments – I am staying and working in a slum. That means the streets teem with life from the many stalls selling mainly food items to the children in their school uniforms to the streams of uncertain origin to motorbikes buzzing through the traffic of large trucks, many people and “roads” which…
Did I Make a Mistake?
Not sure where to start – I guess at the beginning. The time change caught up with me last night, but I did manage some sleep. Had a good breakfast with my purchases and coffee! Dressed in my scrubs and headed down to meet Barnabas and Mike for my ride to the clinic – Boundless…
Into Africa!
Waiting at PDX to board my flight for Amsterdam and then onto Nairobi. I have switched into travel mode which looks like a simplification of my life. All I concentrate on are the things necessary to this trip. Passport and ticket? Bag checked? Through security? Purchase water bottle? Last bathroom stop? But enough details to…
A New Reality
It’s a beautiful sunny day out here at the farm. I’m sitting, looking out my window at the spring green grass, the pink puffs of trees, and my favorite, the cheerful bobbing yellow daffodil heads. On one of my drives to town, I pass a field full of newborn lambs, sniffing out life or getting…
Jill – Where Are You?
Oh, the places you’ll go!! Sitting on the plane headed to Istanbul and ending in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Life continues to amaze me. Yesterday was our last full day in Bangladesh. We awoke in Khulna, had breakfast, drove about two hours to Jessore, caught a short hop flight, and ended back in Dhaka again. Just coming…
Holy Ends Holy Beginnings 