KENYA

No pictures due to slow internet- but there will be plenty.

Kenya- where I go little children in tattered school uniforms follow shouting "how are you". White people are called Muzungos and we are endlessly entertaining to Kenyans. Public transport into town to get to this internet involves a Matatu- VW bus crammed with 20people, a Piki Piki- back of a motorbike, or a boda boda- back of a bicycle. In the morning I get up, shower with a bucket of water- heated over a fire, and have breakfast of bread and peanut butter. I get on our VW bus with supplies and 4 other nurses my age and we drive..... maybe 1 hour, maybe 2. We go to surrounding towns and set up in churches, huts, whatever. I sit down with a translator and diagnose and prescribe. I teach things so elementary it's painful. Back pain- because you have been carrying things on your head your whole life....etc. So much tuberculosis, STDS, AIDS, Typhoid, ........ so many sick people and children. And when I ask "when did this begin" 75% of the time the answer is over a couple years ago. Yes yes we are blessed and yes it is beautiful to see these small communities in their huts with their cows... and the most beautiful snotty children... More to come.