Highlights:
My host family’s first and only baby was baptized. I went to the church thinking it was a private baptism only to find out that about 50 other babies were being baptized at the same time!! The priest dipped his hand in water and just flung it out over the crowd of parents holding their babies. Then we took pictures outside the church and walked to the family’s house to continue the celebration. It was super long and I got very tired and bored.
Went into Kigali for medical reasons and ended up sitting in the hospital for about 3 hours, then I got stuck in the exam room afterwards (they guy said, okay we are finished, but the door I had come in he locked and didn’t unlock afterwards and he didn’t turn the lights back on so I was confused and just sat there for about 10 minutes until he came back in and said okay you can go), and then, I got locked in the bathroom and a maintenance guy had to come let me out. Met up with a lot of other volunteers and had a lot of good food! Really, really fun weekend.
A funny conversation I had with a girl at the clinic after I got back:
Me: I had pizza in Kigali!
Girl 1: Oh, pizza, I love pizza, you will make me pizza? I want to eat some pizza.
Me: Sure, I just need to build an oven first, then you can come over and we’ll eat pizza.
Girl 2: What’s pizza?
Girl 1: I don’t know.
Went to Kigali again with a friend and saw the Seattle Sounders vs. Chicago game on the TV!
I now am a pro at taking blood pressure using the cuff and stethoscope.
I got to see the twin babies whom I felt in the moms belly when she brought them in for vaccination.
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