December 30th
I did rounds on the men’s ward with Solomon and Andrew
(one of the nursing students). Then Tom came, and two of
the girl nursing students, I can’t remember their names
quite yet. We finished up the rounds by a little after 10:30.
After lunch there was a c-section on a lady with twins. I
went and watched it and made it through the whole
procedure (from opening to the final stitch) with minimal
nausea. I’m hoping to get to watch some other procedures
in the future. Alusine was supposed to come and visit but
he never turned up. This evening the instructor of the
nursing students invited me over to their place of residence
to join them for their evening devotionals. It was nice to
have some people near my age who are from America and
understand the type of experiences I’m used to as far as
that sort of thing goes. I ended up staying there until almost
11 because I was waiting for a call from Solomon and wasn’t
watching the time. When I realized how late it was I went
down to his house to find he had gone to sleep. I had to
wake him up because I needed to make sure he knew when
to be up at the house in the morning since we were leaving
for Freetown. I came back up and now I’m going to bed, we
aren’t leaving till 8 but I know I need to be up early enough
to get ready before everyone turns up for breakfast. So with
that I wish you all well and a good evening.

Blessings from Kamakwie,
Ryan Brooks