Gosh, it feels like ages since I've written on here!
I'm back in Arusha again now! It was weird as John (our taxi driver) was driving us back to the house after picking us up from the airport. As we approached Arusha and I recognised the area, it almost felt like I was back home! I loved Zanzibar, it was really relaxing and beautiful, but it made me so glad that I'd chosen to do my elective in Arusha rather than the other places in Tanzania!
The house is now down to just 4 people, which is kind of weird! Its now a 2:2 ratio of Canadians: UK people. Next week I'm pretty confident we'll take the upper hand haha! The new small group is nice, it means you can have more 'me' time if you want, but there are still people to chat to if you want! I leave before like 12 people arrive. The house gets really full after this week. I told our cook,Witness, to make the most of not having as much work because she is going to be flat out as of Sunday! She says she loves it when the house is full though!
I've now moved to a different department in the hospital, I'm now on the labour ward! Today was my first day and we (well I say we,I didn't do loads of hands on stuff, but I was there for most of the births!) delivered...wait for it...7 babies! Amazing! They are all soooo beautiful! No joke, the women were seriously lucky that I didn't sneak one home with me, I did come pretty close at one point! They were so tiny, I'd never held a baby less than 24 hours old before, let alone less than 5 mins old! Today I mostly just weighed the babies and wrapped then up in the congas, and filled in some paperwork. Emily is there too which is great actually because she has been there for the past 3 weeks and knows what she is doing. She helped me get more stuck in, and its nice to have someone to chat to when there is a lull.
This weekend just gone was actually nice and quiet and chilled out. I did think at one point that I might have gone on a safari, but it was abit last minute and people kept dropping out, and it was just getting more and more expensive, so we didn't get in the end. My whole view point on it has totally changed during my time here. When I was planning my trip, going on safari was top top of my list of things that I really wanted to do while I was here. And when I arrived and found out most people were either leaving soon, or had already done a safari, I think I could have cried. I was so disappointed. But as I have spent more time here, I have realised that actually, I count myself INCREDIBLY blessed to have even had the option of going. So many people wouldn't even get that. I have decided also to give some of the money that I'd saved for going on safari to Paradiso Orphanage that we have visited a couple of times. I cant remember if I mentioned it in a previous post, but they are currently building a bigger house so the can accommodate more children. I think it's such a great cause. I'm sad that I will only get to visit it one more time.
Yesterday (Sunday) we went on a coffee plantation tour which was actaully really good. We made ourown coffee to drink,and I'm not gona brag, but our coffee was actually the best coffee I've ever drank! ...OK,so it was probably more down to it not being transported across continents, and having things added to it, but still, it was awesome. We has to peel the beans, then pound them, then sive out the skins, roast them, pound them, sive them, pound some more, sive some more (ect ect...) and then boil it....mmmmm! In the afternoon we took a tour around a lake, the name of which I cant rememer! Again, it was beautiful. At one point we had a view across some ofthe plains of Tanzania, with the mountains far in the distance. It really was breathtaking. I dont think the photos I took will do it justice.
This final week is seriously going to be jam packed. There is still so much I want to do, and I only have another, what, 4 and a half days here! Time has seriously flown. I have loved every minuite of it here. Though I will be very sad to leave, the clock in my head that is counting down the days until I go home is getting louder. As Saturday gets closer and closer, I'm getting more glad that home isnt to long away.
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