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I really stink at updating this thing lately... so on that note, here are a few updates from life here in Botswana.


The Clinic... things are going really well at the clinic. I love working there. The staff is awesome, the patients are super sweet, and they are keeping me busy. A lot of the girls I work with have been gone at workshops for the last couple weeks, so I have been working really hard with them gone. I am also very sad because one of the nurses is leaving my village. I am extremely happy for her, because she is moving down to the village her husband lives in, but I am sad because she is leaving me.

I had a rough week a couple of weeks ago. A friend of mine passed away. She was an older lady in the community, but we had become friends and I know her daughters as well as her grand-daughters. She was on ARV's and doing really well until one week she got really ill and went to the hospital. I went to the funeral. It was very sad, but nothing like funerals at home.

Okay enough depressing news...

GLOW, I am so excited. I am taking a group of girls down to Gaborone next month for a 10 day camp. It kinda feels like I am going back to Lake Aurora, except for the lack of the lake and no religious stuff. It should be really fun. The girls I am hoping to have over for dinner before we go. I want them to get to know eachother better as well as myself and Sega.

Jerome is doing well. He had his first vet visit 3 weeks ago today. He got shots, a bath, his ears cleaned, a full check-up, and an appointment for today to get more shots... update on that, I went yesterday to pick up his shots from the vet and today I get to play nurse and give him them myself.

I don't remember if I told you I am planning a football(soccer for all you american's) tournament in my village. I have been working on this for quite a while now and things are going well. I had to change the dates of my tournament this last week to coordinate with World AIDS Day. The tournament's focus is to increase male involvement in health services as well as increase male and couple HIV testing. So now that it is now partnered with World AIDS Day, I have a lot more support and help from my community.

Guess who's here??? Yep, that's right Justin is. That crazy boy flew half way around the world to come hang out with me for a couple weeks. Today is his 5th day on the job with me. Yesterday we spent the day in Kasane settling the administration side of my job. We also checked out all the fun stuff we are planning to do while he is here. I will let you know more when it happens.

I think this is good for now. I should be updating again soon.