this is how expats party

I went into the clinic on Friday and ended up doing prenatal exams on pregnant women. I got to measure their bellies and feel for the head to determine if the baby was fixed or not. I actually caught an at-risk birth; the baby’s head was fixed, but not in the birth canal, so I called the nurse in and she felt it then called in the other nurse to come feel it and they had to send her to the hospital. I felt like a real maternal nurse that day, it was awesome. I saw about 15 patients. Then the nun sent me and Emily home to eat lunch and rest (they think we are weak muzungus), so we came back and packed our bags and sat around for a few hours until the motos arrived to take us to the main road for the OAF party. I had to ride with the accountant who is a TERRIBLE driver! He doesn’t really know what he is doing and he acts like a teenaged boy. He goes really slow because hes not very confident on the bike but then he has to prove his machoness by gunning it the next second. It was not a fun, relaxing ride like I usually have with Ambroise, the main driver. We got picked up at the main road and driven to the house. We had a delicious dinner complete with salad with macadamia nuts and goat cheese!!! There were 12 expats in the house, it was crazy. 11 from the US, 4 were RPCVs from West Africa and a Kenyan. It’s like heaven going to their house with all the good food and fun things to do. We had a dance party that lasted all night and the next morning (or more accurately, afternoon) we had a yummy breakfast and then went to the lake for swimming and picnicking and we played some Frisbee and volleyball. It was a beautiful day. I swam out to the floating dock and lay there a while listening to the kids on the shore yell at me (they can see me no matter how far off I am). When we got back we had another amazingly delicious dinner and more alcohol and dancing. We played taboo and UNO and I won both! (well, I won one hand of UNO which ended up being the last b/c we were playing where I got the points from the cards still in peoples hands and I caught everyone when they had a million cards, so I got all the points in one hand! And in taboo I was on a team, so it wasn’t a solitary win, but still!). During the day, Tricia and I practiced some acroyoga, which we began to do in Butare. It is really fun. I’ve always wanted to be in circle de soleil and acroyoga is kinda like that. It’s a lot of partner acrobatics. I am the flyer and Tricia is the base. I’d like to try to be the base, but I don’t have anyone smaller than me to fly. We showed the others and Tricia ended up flying two of the other people also, so we started a movement of acroyoga in Rwanda! We did some more Sunday morning after another amazing breakfast and then we watched a movie, Lord of War, which was pretty interesting, on their giant projection screen with surround sound! We were driven home late Sunday night and slept in Monday morning and just went to the market and to teach English in the afternoon.