Fellows Blog: Day 19
A morning ode to chickens, by Kyrillos:
“Good morning chicken!
Did you know that black chickens lay brown eggs?
Look the chicken is saying good morning to us”
In other news of morning odes, we awoken every morning to the sound of local schoolchildren chanting by counting to 10 and doing a call and response with their teacher. The walls here have negative soundproofing, which is also fun when the dogs come out barking and the wolves come out howling every night.
Haleigh and Amber, fueled by water saturated with electrolytes and protein powder, taught the airway, breathing and circulation part of the curriculum. Kyrillos entered all our pre test data after Haleigh had entered the registration data and Amber coordinated the certificates and checking the test answers. In short, we have our system down now!
Training proceeded as usual …. For better or for worse, there’s no real blog worthy content to mention. The boda bodas seemed fairly engaged and we’re hoping to take a good portion of them for our advanced training.
Following the training, we went to the restaurant that we pay for bodas’ to have lunch at. We watched Devir devour a piece of fish (see below). Haleigh asked for everyone’s bill at least 7 times… needless to say we were there for a while.
We then walked to our staple restaurant of Mukono Resort Hotel for a meeting to discuss our curriculum. The TOTs have been insistent on us shortening the curriculum so the boda bodas are more engaged, and we wanted to discuss how they would go about this without removing any vital information while planning for the sustainability of our program. While some news from back in the US distracted Haleigh and Amber a bit, we were able to come to a conclusion that we will meet with the TOTs this weekend to better train them and include more hands on time in the training.
On the way back home, we got sugarcane again, although it was rather underwhelming compared to the one yesterday to be honest. Amber referred to this phenomenon as “the principle of diminishing marginal returns,” so she is now adding “future economist” underneath “budding criminal” and “amateur photographer” on her résumé. At home, we ate chocolate and goldfish and entered some data. Also Isaac the gecko reappeared, but that seems to be a nightly occurrence that is barely even blog worthy anymore. We did discover that the mangos in our gecko trap have rotted and should probably throw that water bottle out soon.
We’re looking forward to sleeping in a little tomorrow and apologize for the boring blog today. We guess no news is good news?
“What a beautiful chicken” -Kyrillos
Picture taken moments before Amber hit Haleigh in the face for dramatic effect to get a laugh out of our participants. Don’t worry though, Amber was pushed to the floor by Haleigh multiple times today to act out being the patient.
“That was interesting fish” -Kyrillos
Your daily dose of Isaac the Gecko! He’s still chilling on our ceiling.
The sugarcane stand - see a video of how they peel it here.
Mukono at night! Amber and Haleigh spent 5 minutes trying to capture a good photo and this was the best they came up with #maybeAmberisn’tabuddingphotographer?