Sunday, May 13, 2012

May 7th


Ellen and I made the journey to the hospital again in hopes of politely harassing some higher up people into letting me help in the hospital. We spend one hour in the pharmacy playing solitary waiting for the district medical officer to get out of a meeting; then we were ushered to another office where we waited for another 2.5 hours. Ellen is now a master at Luxor, a computer game. Anyways when we were finally able to meet with the BMO he took down my name, number, a copy of my diploma and my college transcript. He told me that they are very short staffed and that they would be happy to have me. He promised a call by the end of the day. It is now 2100, I am not holding my breath.

Ellen and I hitched back from the Boma and made it just in time to sit in on a meeting with the newly appointed District Health Commissioner and all the head men of Nyansonso. From what Ellen was able to translate for me the head men were getting a bit of a tongue lashing for not being role models in the community. They have the power in influence and to spread knowledge that would help the community to thrive but they have done very little to spur progress. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that her words will inspire some forward thinking/ motivation for maybe a week.

Oh yeah and I have a cold. My boyfriend sneezed in my face. We are taking some time apart.

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