More adventures on the Nile coming right up!

After a week of hard work, I am excited to be taking the weekend off. I have just arrived in Jinja, with Angie, and we are spending the weekend here. Angie's going to bungee jump today (I'm not quite crazy enough to do that!) and then tomorrow we are both doing a full day of whitewater rafting on the nile. I've never whitewater rafted before so I'm pretty excited but also nervous.

This week has been very busy as I have been working on the survey very hard and pulling together all the details. We are supposed to do a training day on Monday to teach all the surveyors how to do it, and then the survey will take place over three days. The rest of my time here--only a few weeks now--will then be spent analyzing and sorting the data gathered from the survey, along with continuing to volunteer at Joy Hospice. Joy has been quite slow lately, for some reason we have not had many patients coming in, which is unusual. But there have been many med students and various visitors there so it has been interesting still. Last week Dr. Jan went away for a few days to Murchison falls for a safari, where I will also be going at the end of August, and so Rachel, a British Med student, and I, were working with Jim Knox, a resident from the States. We had one patient come in with a facial tumor. She had only noticed it a few days earlier and already it had started to close one of her eyes due to the swelling. It was hard to know where it originated from, becauase we had no access to scanners, but from where it was located, on the bridge of her nose, it could easily cause her to lose her eyesight or go into her brain and cause death. It amazes me how much Cancer we see her, and how far progressed it is, it is so sad. I have seen so many tumours that are just open and hard and huge and there is nothing that can be done because there's no money to treat patients.

One of the things that I have really enjoyed doing is helping out a a Kids Bible club on saturdays. We sing songs, tell stories, and the kids are just wonderful. They are so beautiful.
I can't believe that I will be home in less than three weeks now, the time has gone by so fast. I am excited to come home but really sad to leave at the same time.