December 28th

I did rounds again this morning in the men’s ward
with LA, who is hospital administrator I guess, I’m
not sure what he is medically. Rounds flew by and
we were done by about 9am. I went over to the
administrative office meeting room where they
have a bunch of medical texts and a few other
books. I spent a few hours working on getting it
ready to be a reference library. We were putting
the little card holders in the books so that the book
could be checked out and we would know who has
it. Since Karen was gone Tom and I were on our
own for lunch, but we managed. After lunch we
went over to the guest house to finish hanging the
bug nets over the beds since the nursing student
group arrives the next day. While we were working
on it Alusine showed up and he helped me hang
two of the nets while Tom talked with Samuel and
Solomon who also stopped by, talk about leaving me
hanging (haha, poor joke I know). After we finished
up there we came home for dinner and Alusine
waited around till I was done. Him and I just sat on
the front porch for a little while until he decided he
was too cold (silly African, he doesn’t even have an
idea of what it means to be cold) and was going
home. I spent a few hours reading a really interesting
book about a girl who had been in the Hitler’s Youth
when she was younger. It was a story about her
growing up with God, losing him during her time in
Hitler’s Youth, and how she came to return to him
over her life. It was really good. Anyway, I was waiting
for Solomon to call so we could hang out but when he
didn’t by 10 I decided I was going to bed since I was
really tired.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks