So this is a video that I've compiled of clips from the first half of the trip. I used my laptop to edit them all together on the Windows Movie Maker program that comes standard on all copies of XP. That's right, Monday is the official half-way point. And while it's seemed to go by slowly at times, in retrospect it's been a quick 2 months. The different clips are:
1-3: A wedding in Mmankgodi
4: An Ostrich farm in Manyana (yes, said like the Spanish word for tomorrow)
5: The going away party in Mmankgodi with all of the mothers and us singing and dancing
6: A clip of the hail storm (ice falling from the sky) in Molepolole with music that I recorded of some random gentleman singing as they were walking at night.
So these last 3 weeks I've been working in the brand spanking new building of the Scottish Livingstone Hospital, which was opened in 1931 and is now run by the government. Asside from being enormous and impressive, it also seems to be a big logistal challenge for everyone involved in moving things from the old complex. It didn't help that I was supposed to start interning on the day they were moving in for the first time.
I spent my time there working in PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmition of HIV), which is a highly successful program there that has an 85% success rate in preventing transmission. I also worked directly with an HIV/AIDS testing councelor, during which I saw about 5 people get tested, and thankfully all were negative. One of the most intense experiences of my life was watching a young nurse get tested who had pricked herself accidentally with a needle she had used to draw blood from a patient. She was barely holder than I and she was trying to hold back tears as she faced an incredible moment. I was so relieved that she was negative (by the way, now, you can get results in just 10 minutes). And, the patient she had treated was negative too.
Tonight we are leaving for the Kasane Game Reserve and Victoria Falls up north. This should be a fun weeklong vacation, and I'm looking forward to it a lot.
Until next time.
Love,
Carter
ps. if the video didn't work go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVbpVsWYPc
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