I am
very tired and lazy so this is going to be short and sweet and to the
point. Today I am just going to combine
today and yesterday because nothing really happened yesterday. But two days ago when I said that every day
would be a great day I lied. Wednesday
was miserable and it was the worse day we have had so far. It was so boring and we were cooped up in the
house all day and it sucked so much. We
had to training to get done. The thing
that made it suck so much was that before we left we had to do a mandatory
training meeting and it was everything that we had to listen to on Wednesday
and it was awful. We were literally in
the house ALL day!! We got to leave at like 5 just because people needed to get
some errands done but then we had to be back by 7 for curfew soo 2 hours
outside equaled a sucky day.
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| First time doing immunizations :) |
Today was great though. We went to Mbale Regional Hospital
and I got to do immunizations on babies.
It was the best thing ever. First
we had to do a health class with the mothers and teach them about caring for
their babies which included how to breastfeed properly, when to breastfeed,
when to burp the baby, and the importance of the immunizations we were about to
give them. While the nurse was teaching about breastfeeding there was a lady that was actually breastfeeding and she was doing it completely wrong so the teacher called her out. It was a little awkward but i is just a part of the culture. Also side noet while I'm on the topic... Women here are not private at all about their breastfeeding situations. Like yea its natural but not everyone needs to see it. You could be mid conversation with a woman and she will just whip out her boob. It's a little weird but gotta get used to it because it is something that happens all the time. Anyways back to the immunizations. We were giving the
polio vaccine and TB vaccine. I was
freaking out because I had never done anything like that before. I had given my grandma her insulin shots
awhile back but nothing like that. I was stressing out because for the TB
testing you have to create a little bubble under the skin and inject the
vaccine into the bubble. They do that so that it creates a scar so nurses and
physicians can tell if people have gotten their immunizations. I only got to give one immunization because
we were running out of time but I was so excited that I did it. I messed up when I actually got to do it but
sometimes you have to mess up before you can succeed.
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| Cool looking thing outside of La Casa |
After
the immunizations, Hannah (a girl on my team) took some of the newbies to go
explore the town just so we don’t have to be babysat anymore and can be more
independent. I am slowly but surely
getting the hang of everything now and it makes me happy. I still can’t pronounce any of the city names
but I’m making my way haha We went to
this place called La Casa and grabbed a bite to eat then headed home. It kinda sucks that our curfew is so early
but I know it’s for a good reason. I am
going to bed though because I am exhausted!!
Peace and love Americans!!
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