So it turns out that "polepole" means "slow" while "pole" means "I'm sorry". I had these mixed up. So I have been apologizing to the bodaboda drivers for the past week and a half. Embarassing.
The rainforest was awesome. We went on a long hike Saturday when we got there and then a hike that brought us to a summit overlooking the rainforest for the sunrise Sunday morning. The monkeys and butterflies were in full effect.
The mobile clinics have been a bit frustrating the past 2 days. Everything just works so differently here. We all gather around 9 and chat until about 10:30. Then we stop about 7 times to say hello to anyone we see. Then we get out and push the van. Then stop for fruit. Then we drop off the microenterprise volunteers at their sites and we all get out and meet everyone imaginable who has anything to do with the facility. Then we get to a church in the middle of nowhere to set up our clinic and nobody has seen the pastor who has the only key. So we wander around a Swahili-speaking only village and try to make hand gestures that mimic the use of a key. And the people laugh at us. Really hard. We eventually locate the pastor and chat with him for a bit. Set up clinic. Sort through everybody who has shown up to determine who is really sick and who came to see what a white person's hair feels like. Then we see terrible malnutrition and chronic diseases which we have absolutely no hope of treating because none of these remote people have any way to get to a hospital for follow-up. I'm looking forward to the women's health teaching which begins next week. The slots were all filled immediately so at least there's an interest.
Again, I really appreciate the emails. Please forgive me for not responding. They only have dial-up here and my time in town is limited.
Oh, and I was offered 100 cows by our pharmacist. Woooooooooooohooooooooooo!
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