During lunch, I was listening to Ruth and Bill Wismer talk about the schools they have been working with in Uganda through ConnectAbana. I've only been in Kenya for a day, but it was already pretty clear that Uganda is where I'm supposed to go next. Pretty overwhelming, but if this is my purpose, then all I can go is just follow His lead with an open heart and open mind. I started thinking maybe my medical background was just a stepping stone to come on this trip, but really I'm supposed to be working with the kids, doing something with art or Art2Africa, but it hasn't all been made clear yet.
After lunch we looked around the shop where they sell the things that they make, and of course I wanted to buy everything, but I did a pretty good job holding myself back. I still haven't gotten very good at figuring out the exchange rate with out a calculator, so it would be easy to spend all of my money and not realize it ;)
The medical team met with Michael from Beacon, who is going with us to set up the medical camp on Wednesday in Bissil. From our group, there are only 2 doctors, 2 nurse practicioners, a nurse and myself (& Matthew the clown), but we will be meeting local medical workers there. We tried to work out a vision of how the camp will work, but I kind of feel like we won't really know until we are there.
We got back and had an hour of down time, then had dinner and now my eyes will barely stay open. I have a sore throat and a weird headache above my eyes whenever I move my eyes too fast. But, I'm pretty sure it's from traveling for 30+ hours, the altitude, etc. hopefully it'll be gone in the morning! *fingers crossed* (: aaaand I need to take my malaria medication but my stomach is telling me "noooooooooooo".. It didn't make me feel so great the first two days, but I guess being nauseous is better than having malaria..
Tomorrow we are doing some home visits in the slums to meet with some of the patients from Beacon, so I'm sure I will have even more to write about at the end of the day!(: (& I'll try to take more pictures tomorrow)
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