Amakuru? that is how are you in kinyarwanda. I am learning more words each day, but I dont think Ill be able to have more than a very short conversation in it before I go. Some people here also speak Swahili because we are so close to Uganda (where 8-15 different languages are spoken) and the Congo.
I am doing better since my last post and am feeling healthy again. I slept more and drank and ate more and quit taking larium/mefloquine. I am going to try to take doxycycline because I want to be on some kind of antimalarial, but if it makes me sick I will just give up. Regardless, I've got to see alot of cool things in the hospital since Friday. We had an emergency C section yday because a first time mother gave birth to twins. The second twin had trouble breathing and now has trouble breastfeeding, but hes doing better.
Yesterday me and two girls staying at the guesthouse next door went hiking on the neighboring mountain. (my roomate went to Kigali for a couple days but is back now and brought coffee and chocolate and cheese with her). We hiked to the top of the next mountain and could see the dormant volcano thats just 4 miles north of that peak. The Rwandans that passed us when we were stopped to take pictures laughed and told us that they couldnt understand why it is fun to take pictures of ourselves in front of their land. I know the landscape is normal to them, but still...it is so beautiful here with all the different trees, mountains, rivers, and streams. One of the girls said it looks just like Costa Rica (I've never been).
This morning I went on rounds with a visiting german doctor who speaks German, French, english, and kinyarwandan. He is an OBGYN, so I got to do a few pelvic exams. There are 9 women in the hospital waiting to give birth right now...some are dilated and having contractions (prob vaginal birth), some having contractions and not dilated (prob C sections), and some dont even know their approximate due date or when their last missed period was. So after a morning of the doctor balling his hand up in a fist and shouting"THIS IS THE CERVIX", we went to his house and had tea with his cute german wife Iris and their youngest daughter Julianna who is like 1 and a half. Then, I checked out the malnutrition unit of the hospital, helped at the primary school and interviewed the headmistress, and then typed up some stuff for my report at the Kings' house. Im about to go back to the Kohls (the german family's house) for dinner then cards with the germans and their cute 3 girls. Tomorrow I will be back at the hospital!
I am doing better since my last post and am feeling healthy again. I slept more and drank and ate more and quit taking larium/mefloquine. I am going to try to take doxycycline because I want to be on some kind of antimalarial, but if it makes me sick I will just give up. Regardless, I've got to see alot of cool things in the hospital since Friday. We had an emergency C section yday because a first time mother gave birth to twins. The second twin had trouble breathing and now has trouble breastfeeding, but hes doing better.
Yesterday me and two girls staying at the guesthouse next door went hiking on the neighboring mountain. (my roomate went to Kigali for a couple days but is back now and brought coffee and chocolate and cheese with her). We hiked to the top of the next mountain and could see the dormant volcano thats just 4 miles north of that peak. The Rwandans that passed us when we were stopped to take pictures laughed and told us that they couldnt understand why it is fun to take pictures of ourselves in front of their land. I know the landscape is normal to them, but still...it is so beautiful here with all the different trees, mountains, rivers, and streams. One of the girls said it looks just like Costa Rica (I've never been).
This morning I went on rounds with a visiting german doctor who speaks German, French, english, and kinyarwandan. He is an OBGYN, so I got to do a few pelvic exams. There are 9 women in the hospital waiting to give birth right now...some are dilated and having contractions (prob vaginal birth), some having contractions and not dilated (prob C sections), and some dont even know their approximate due date or when their last missed period was. So after a morning of the doctor balling his hand up in a fist and shouting"THIS IS THE CERVIX", we went to his house and had tea with his cute german wife Iris and their youngest daughter Julianna who is like 1 and a half. Then, I checked out the malnutrition unit of the hospital, helped at the primary school and interviewed the headmistress, and then typed up some stuff for my report at the Kings' house. Im about to go back to the Kohls (the german family's house) for dinner then cards with the germans and their cute 3 girls. Tomorrow I will be back at the hospital!
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