Work week update

So I am officially finally recoverd from our hike on Saturday... and it only took 4 days! This week has been pretty uneventful so far. Labor ward has picked up a bit, which is nice. Yesterday I delivered three babies, and today I did one and a C-section. I've turned into a pretty good little scrub tech/1st assist if you ask me. He even let me close the skin today using subcuticular stitches (ones that don't show at all so it looks much prettier when you're done). I really wish I could be there when she compares her scar to other people's C/S scars and I could be like... well, you're welcome.

There is a local orphanage that people from Work the World regularly go visit while we're here (not the one Caroline's mom is working at, but a smaller one) and the kids from there are coming for a barbeque at our house tonight. It should be very interesting. We went one afternoon last week to play with them and they are just the cutest things ever. The younger ones don't speak a whole lot of english, but the older ones are pretty good. They still all knew games like duck duck goose though, I assume from so many western visitors. It's very sad how poor they are though. You can sponsor a child (food, clothes, school, everything) for about $700 a year. The four oldest are old enough to go to secondary school, but only three go because the fourth isn't sponsored and so they can't afford the school fees. It's a little different to see those adds on TV for sponsoring an African child than it is to actually see where they live and to meet them face to face. Anway, tonight should be fun. I can't quite picture them outside of their little muddy house roaming around our big beautiful Work the World house.

We are also planning to have more fun with orphans this weekend. We are taking the kids from the orphanage Caroline's mom works at (22 kids) to Arusha National Park this Sunday. It's sort of like a mini safari. One of the safari companies around here is taking the kids for free and giving us a discount since we're taking them. Three teachers from the orphanage are coming too (thank goodness! They seem well behaved, but it's a little tough to discipline when you don't speak the same language). Sadly, Caroline's mom has been sick since she got here (seems like the flu, but pretty bad) so I'm really hoping she gets better soon.

Lastly, since I'm thinking of this as I hear rain pouring down outside, I think it is officially rainy season here. Online I read it's not supposed to start until sometime in March, but it has rained every day since Sunday. Not all day, but those pop up thunder storms that pour down rain for a little bit and then clear up. So not terrible, but not quite the perfect weather we had our first three weeks here. I just hope it doesn't get too much worse since we are going on our safari starting in a week and a half. And then with our last four days we are going back to Zanzibar (pretty much can't afford/have time for anything else) and rain there would be even worse. As I'm now peaking out the window though it looks as though the rain has stopped just in time for my walk home! Lovely!