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07.21.09 | Tags: Misc | Comments: (1)My last post was nearly half a year ago, can’t believe it. So lets see what I’ve done in the past half year.
I’m done with my first year of med school. In the process I’ve also knitted 10 pairs of socks. Socks are really the only things that I can easily knit during the school year.
A week after classes ended I left for Kenya for four weeks. About 4 hours after we arrived in Nairobi, my classmate and I went on a 3 day/2 night safari to Masai Mara. We had a great driver who took us all over the park. I took so many photos that I ran out of batteries after the second day, so I’m still awaiting for the photos from the third day from my friend.
A week later we went up north of Nairobi to place called Shalom City where we had no running water, no flush toilets and only occasional electricity. If you ever watched those telethons for Africa, they show people fetching dirty brown water, guess what? I had to drink, bathe, wash in that water! Our water though was treated and boiled for drinking. But still that water was nasty!
So why did I got to Kenya to drink dirty brown water? Medical volunteering with two of my classmates. We saw a lot of interesting cases, got some house calls (more like tent calls since they all lived in tents), and a couple of emergency cases.
There were many people knitting and crocheting but many of them were so poor especially the kids they were crocheting using matchsticks. It really shows the creativity and resourcefulness of the people. I wish I took a picture of the balls they make out of plastic bags and string.
About a week before we left, I decided to make a hat a day for the kids after finding some really cheap acrylic yarn in a supermarket. I ended up finishing 5 hats and gave them all away to the kids.
I have a couple of weeks left before classes begin again. In the meantime, I’ve been dyeing up yarn to sell on my etsy store. So come and take a look, I want to make enough money to get a used digital SLR.
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