So, the Internet has been a problem again. I can't seem to stay on long enough to post anything whenever I have a chance. But today I think I will try again. The pictures are in no particular order and are just random tidbits about our lives.
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| My favorite "pizza" PARACHICHI (avocado!) |
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| Alex enjoying his Passion Fruit Flavor Fanta. There are also pine nut and black current flavors, too. |
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| Big herd of goats and cattle |
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| This goat decided to give birth while we were standing there. She must have known I am an obstetrician. |
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| I live running into beautiful flowers! |
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| The floor was carpeted with these little purple flowers that fell from the tree. |
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| These are some of the wheelchair bikes that are used by people with physical challenges. Alex has been helping people find jobs building them. |
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| Stroopwaffels...our new addiction thanks to the Netherlands students. |
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| Mr. Mihayo, Alex's counterpart, and a very talkative little girl. |
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| This is the way the grass is cut. A bunch of people with big knives. |
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| Um...well...What do I say...? |
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| I am teaching a couple of students how to do c-sections. |
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| This week we had 3 sets of twins and a set of triplets! WOW! |
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| The corn is different here. Hard, dry and you have to pick off the kernels. |
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| Alex's favorite ferry trip. He dreams of bananas and plantains! |
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| An OB/GYN colleage of mine who I passed at the airport. I think he looks like 50 cent (the rapper.) |
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| Having fun on the children's ward! |
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| This is what we use every day to take a warm "shower" (bucket bath.) |
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| This is Mama Faida making ugali! She takes care of us and our house! Love her! |
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| She even makes us fresh juice...mango, passion fruit, pineapple, avocado, tamarind...yum! |
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| This is the new labor and delivery extension and new operating room. We deliver at least 30 patients a day! |
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| This is our humble abode! One of the houses that the TOUCH foundation built. |
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| Alex's work crew. |
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| The SOO course, where we teach emergency ob skills & c-section technique to the students. |
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| A cow heart is surprisingly like the uterus! |
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| The SOO course. |
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| Alex surprised me for my birthday by having a bunch of friends over! |
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| He's such a sweetie! |
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| Some friends from church and a group of students from the Netherlands. We call them our "kids." They rotate here during the end of their medical school for a tropical medicine rotation. They only stay 3 months. |
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| We were all learning "head, shoulders, knees and toes" in English, Swahili, & Dutch! |
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| Awesome cake! |
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| Awesome tradition. I had to feed everyone that came to the party! This is Master Ngalula! |
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| This is Master Dave. Our first Tanzanian friend who we found on Facebook 6 months before we arrived. |
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| This is Mrs Ngalula. She basically has adopted us and feeds us every Saturday after church along with her 7 other children. |
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| Some of the Ngalula crew enjoying soda for the first time in a long time. |
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| She is as sweet as pie and teaches us songs in Swahili. |
marvellous, thank you for sharing your livings
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