Sunday, July 01, 2007

more sister time

The days are flying by... little time to blog these days.

Our current group of interns finished their 3-month pediatrics rotation Friday. We did Pediatrics Jeopardy... weren't sure how that would go here in Bobo but they totally got into it and seemed to really have fun. It was a little distressing to realize they still can't calculate maintenance fluids though...

Actually, their knowledge has really improved. In typical Burkina style, there were speeches at the end... Dr Kientega, one of our colleagues, thanked them for their work and congratulated them on their improvement. And then Masembo gave a little speech saying that they'd been really apprehensive about this rotation but that in the end they learned a lot and found the environment to be a really supportive one.




Friday night Claire and I headed to the Balafons with Sidiki and Amadou, which was fun as alway - I've mentioned them before but here are a couple photos:





The first is Sidiki, Claire and Amadou, the second is the group playing. (For the uninitiated, balafons are xylophones with gourds underneath to project the sound. They are the typical west african musical unstrument.

More later on the weekends adventures!

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