Today was a wonderful day.
I was able to work in one of the outpost sites with a nurse named Mary
who is stationed there. In each remote
town there’s about one nurse that goes door to door and takes care of the
people. It’s amazing—she knows all of
the people and all of the women that just had babies, all those that are sick,
all the girls menstruating. It’s
intense.
After the on-site work, we moved into the door-to-door
work. We followed the little road that
runs through the jungle to different houses to check the women who just had
babies and make sure everything was all good. . The babies were so cute!
From my letter May 11th
Mother’s Day is today!
It was a really good day.
Yesterday we started filming our little mother’s day video and oh, I love the video so much. It captures so much of the joy we feel here.
For Gaye and Karen we decided to each pick a bead for them at the bead market and turn it into a bracelet. At first we were worried it would look terrible because none of us knew what each other would choose, but it looks pretty cute...in the home-made sort of way. :)
After the bead market we went to the nursing school and were
paired with students there to go to some of their classes with them. I got paired with a girl named Abigail and oh
my heavens, I love her. She was so cute…she like took me by the hand
and led me to see her dorm room and all of her roommates introduced
themselves. They were all so excited to
meet me and make me feel comfortable.
They kept making fun of me when I tried to say African words…it was so
funny!
At the end of class, they made us come up to the front of
the room, determined to teach us how to dance.
Oh boy we were pretty terrible!!
The next day we went on a hike to Boti falls. That was another one of my very favorite
things that we’ve done. I loved it so
much because it was the first thing that felt extremely familiar and
comfortable to be hiking. And oh my
heavens it was so beautiful! We hiked
down into the jungle and went up the other side. The first site there were these two
waterfalls.
In the middle of the hike were these really cool cave
things.
At the end of the hike was something called the umbrella
rock. It’s a rock held up by a big stack
of little rocks and it’s so high up. You
climb up a ladder and stand on the top of the jungle! So so so so so beautiful. The ladder terrified me though. I knew if I came up I’d have to go down. Baah!
On Friday we taught at one of the elementary schools here. OH my goodness, that was another one of my favorite things we’ve done here! Baaahh!
So wonderful. Camille and I
taught about safe water drinking and fire safety, dental hygiene was talked
about, hand hygiene, and nutrition. It
went so well! I loved having the kids get
up to practice rolling on the ground for stop drop and roll. The kids sang the girl’s handwashing song for
the rest of the day. And they loved the
dental hygiene puppets that sprayed water out of their mouths. The kids were really smart too! At the end of our first of three teaching
sessions, we had extra time so I taught them heads up seven up and four
corners. Pretty good time. The kids went crazy. It was cool how I could already pick out the
class leaders immediately.
Those children are beautiful and just LOVE you. At the end one of them I had individually
spoken to wouldn’t stop hugging me. It's just such an amazing feeling.
They sang their school anthem to us so loudly and proudly
and we sung our Lord I would follow Thee.
We taught at an adult stake activity on Saturday. Camille and I taught about menopause because
a lot of people have a lot of questions and concerns for that. Patience and Chanele taught about stress
management, Mallory and Shydi taught about CPR, Ali and Zoe taught about wound
care/first aid, Rachel and Emily taught about malaria.
They had a ton of questions and really wanted to learn all
of that stuff. Which was really
cool. At the end we did hemoglobin
checks, blood sugar checks, and blood pressure.
After teaching, we got to do a canopy walk!! We got to cross 7 bridges that were over
the jungle trees. So pretty!! It was really high up so a couple times it
was a little bit scary. But it was
beautiful! And very fun.
After the walk we hurried over to slave castle. It was really sad (like...I cannot imagine how terrible that would have been.) but pretty cool to see at
the same time. One thing really
interesting about the people here is they hold no resentment for slavery and
what happened to their people, because it was just something of the time.
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