I think I am just more of a dog person. . .

So the new living situation hasn’t turned out as great as I had hoped. . . the TV and washer are broken and the upstairs smells like kitty litter!! I have been trying to clean it as much as possible, but those cats are just hard to keep up with. This confirms for me why I don’t have cats and why I never will! Locking them in their “cat room” (yes, there is a room just for the cats) has been helpful. I can then at least sleep at night without them trying to lick at my face (so gross!) . Sorry to my cat-lover friends but I guess I have grown out of my love for cats. . . I think I am just more of a dog person now.
I do have internet though, so it makes skyping easier because I have it in the evening now (afternoon US time). The shower is also really nice and since the washer doesn’t work, one of the doctors is letting me give her my laundry for her maid to do. =) Works for me. It took a few hours and a phone call to figure out how to use her stove. Who new it just took hitting a switch on the wall?!??! The house doesn’t have a microwave either so I have to do “real” cooking. It isn’t bad though- I definitely have the time here.

Clinic was super busy yesterday. I don’t think we stopped seeing patients till almost 6 (which is late for this clinic). Lots of sick kids from the weekend I presume. I didn’t have to send anyone to the hospital yesterday, but did send 2 today. The malnutrition here is just so crazy. I can’t even imagine having so little that you can’t feed your family. Poverty here is so different from poverty in the US- I don’t even know if we can call it poverty in the US after what I see here. I guess it is all relative.

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Mahale dam just behind the Mahale clinic and town

Highlight of yesterday- I found a blow-dryer where I am staying!! Probably one of my happiest moments here. I was ready to do a hair commercial after I showered and blow-dried! It was so nice not to go to bed with wet hair for a change!