Last days

It is hard to believe my time in clinic here is coming to an end. I am really sad about leaving (and not at all looking forward to going back to residency in a few weeks – though I have only 6 weeks to go!). I have made wonderful friends here and feel more so than I ever do at home that work is making a big difference in people’s lives. I will also miss the sunshine, fresh mangoes, and daily swims in the pool! At our staff meeting this morning (attached are pictures of staff singing and dancing to open the meeting...and Sophy filming it), they gave me a beautiful woven bag and a card as a thank you and people have been asking all day if I will come back. Of course I will. It is hard to see such a level of need and suffering – and such wonderful people working to alleviate it - and not want to return.

These last pictures are around town – two of our friends from clinic took Sophy and me out to buy some local music in a tiny shop down an alley where they custom made mixes for us. Tomorrow night we’ll all go out and listen to some of the real thing before I head off. Also included: the view from our apartment of Lake Victoria at sunset.



I will spend the next ten days traveling – on safari in the Masai Mara, climbing Mt Kenya, more safari near Nairobi – then off to London to visit Katherine and Eugene.