Holidays?

First and foremost.

Happy Holidays everybody! Although not being in freezing negative degree temps is making it hard to believe it's here.

I wanted to thank everyone for the support I receive both in spirit and in mail!  It’s always great to know that my friends and family are behind me and it helps me continue doing my work here.  The packages have often magically come at times when I need a friendly reminder of the love I feel at home!

Moving on to other topics…

What am I up to lately?

Well this week my friend and fellow PCV Nicole is in my village and we are working on the Clinic’s garden!  There is one man who is really dedicated to making the garden flourish and is at the clinic a lot to water it.  So I’m using that Permagarden training!  That should make Peace Corps happy!  Yesterday we did a single dig, this evening we will double dig it to get even deeper into the rock…I mean soil…. And then the next day we will plant!  Nicole brought us some carrot, tomato, and onion seeds!

 

 

I’ve also been super involved in the clinic day to day business, partly because school is closed and there is literally no one in my village for the holidays because most people go to the farms or other towns. Although despite people being gone the clinic is still undeniably busy.  With transfers and leave the clinic has only had one nurse with one relief nurse who is moonlighting in our clinic.  It really makes for a busy week every week.  And although the patients get frustrated with how long things take these nurses really do put up with so much work and never really do get a weekend…or even an evening sometimes.  One nurse will be on call for the whole week and the weekend. 

Things I miss:

Dishwashers

Laundry machines

cold weather

Really fast internet

Family

Children not crying when they see me

My best friend Nicole scaring me every time i wasnt expecting it...even when i was.

That is all for now.  I was going to post more photos but my connection is real S...L..O...W.

See you after the Holidays!