How's it going?

Hi!

So I can't believe it's Thursday already. I feel like I just updated yesterday. But I guess that's because I don't really do a whole lot day-to-day around here. This week has been pretty typical in that sense. Although Tuesday I did get to go with Medex Sampson (on his motorcycle again :-) To Wowetta, which is about 9 miles away. He took me to the clinic there where I got to watch the Community Health Worker run her weekly infant and toddler clinic. It was interesting to watch and good to talk to her. She was actually one of only 4 CHW's that have actually attended the workshops that we had wanted to run (a med student was here last spring and organized one, but it wasn't well attended). From talking to her she sounded like she really appreciated it and liked the workshop a lot which was nice to hear. It's unfortunate that we haven't been able to run them, but from the couple of CHW's I've talked to they seem to think it would be/has been valuable so it's nice to know that what we wanted to do would have been well received. And hopefully this means that the residents coming in November will be able to run some successful workshops.

In other news, we're heading to Boa Vista this weekend. We had it all set up with someone here to get a lift to Lethem (about 3 hours away) at which point it's pretty easy to get to Boa Vista. However, we were told this morning that they were just given a bunch more work and he doesn't think he's going to be able to go to Lethem this weekend. So I guess we're going to be catching the bus early tomorrow morning and making our own way there. It should be an adventure, but I'm sure it'll all work out. I'm going to use some of my time this afternoon to look up some basic portuguese.

I think that's all for today. Our trip is running super short. When we get back from Boa Vista we only have a few days left in Bina Hill before heading back to Georgetown on our way back to Canada. I have to say, I'm pretty excited to get home!

Have a great weekend!
Kaila