Weekend update

Hi everyone!

It is a hot Sunday here today…very sunny and humid! I think I am finally getting some sun, though, so I’m happy!

This weekend has been a good one! Saturday morning I went running with Sonsona and then went over to Dr Martin’s house for awhile to hang out with his family. They got out their “beach chair” for me and I got to lay in the sun for an hour- I was so excited! Ha that was my first time all summer! Dr Martin’s wife (we call her Mama Ben) kept saying, “Ann are you crazy? Why are you laying in the sun? You are going to get sick!” I tried to explain to her that this is a normal activity for white people but she still didn’t get it! Ha! I watched a bit of Spiderman 2 in French with the kids and then visited the Seminary of N’Dali with Mama Ben. The seminary was just a bunch of houses and huts with one building that had classrooms. Several families lived around the classroom building and we visited a few of the women who lived there. I then spent some time chilling in my room- I ended up getting a bad headache so I was thankful I didn’t have any major plans yesterday. I spent the evening with Dr Martin’s family and then went to bed!

Today I went to church with the midwife, Hortense. She goes to a different evangelical church than Dr Martin but it seemed pretty much the same. The main difference was that the service was in Bariba, not French. I didn’t understand a lot of it but it was still fun to observe the people there and how they worship! I then went back to the catholic center for lunch and then visited the nurse, Sonsona. She took me on a motorbike ride to see the cotton factory that is just outside of N’Dali. We wanted to walk around but the guard wouldn’t let us in! He told us to come back tomorrow- bummer! I got a picture with him outside of the factory and he thought that was pretty funny! It was still a fun visit even though we didn’t go inside!

I’ll be heading to Dr Martin’s soon to hang out with the kids (we’ve been playing a lot of Mancala and the card game Memory lately!) and then have dinner! Then it’s the start of my last full week at the clinic- time is flying!!