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| JCho checking my BP before the kids came. |
Today has been another long day. I'm journaling now, before the sun goes down, because the power has been out all afternoon and I'm not sure when it will come back on. We went to morning worship at the hospital and then set up for health screenings at the primary school.
Steve, Dr. Pierce, Sheila, JCho, Jen, and me set up our different stations in a small classroom. Sheila greeted the kids and got their basic information. Then Jen would measure their height and weight. JCho would take their blood pressure and I would take their pulse and check their spine for scoliosis. Steve and Dr. Pierce would check their eyes, ears, throat, and heart. They also would council them on sex and HIV. I really enjoyed being a part of the clinical side. It almost makes me want to go into medicine -
almost.
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Checking their backs.
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| Some of the cool kids. |
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| Playing frisbee. |
We screened over 90 kids in 3 hours. After that we packed up our things and went home. A gang of children followed not long after. The boys, Edgar and Wilson, wanted to show me the card trick I taught them the other day. I had to help Wilson out, but he eventually got it.
We played a few rounds of Go Fish then went outside to play frisbee. The girls wanted to have a photo shot with me so we took a bunch of pictures sitting on the wall outside the house.
One girl was very fond of my sunglasses so I gave them to her.
After we got the kids out of the house I noticed the coffee table was covered in ink from the girls' drawings. So Sheila, JCho, and me grabbed lysol wipes and scrubbed frantically to remove them. Our arms were moving so fast we burst into laughter. I'm pretty sure we looked ridiculous, but we successfully removed the pen marks. Now the sun is setting and it's getting dark. Hope the power comes on soon!
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| What a pretty face! |
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| Wilson in blue and his little brother to the left in red. |
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| The girls and I. |
