Archive for April, 2010

Pics

Monday, April 26th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pics of the highlights at my personal blog.  carinapc.blogspot.com

Home sweet home

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

A normal 15 hour plane ride has turned into over 20 hour travel.  It started off with standing in line at Entebbe airport for over 1 hour to just check my bags in.  Then as we are getting ready to board, ...

Last Week (Uganda & Med School)

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Went to Efendy's on Monday nite with the other lodgers.  It's probably my last dinner with all the rest of the lodgers together.  It's a Turkish restaurant and we all ordered meze mix and hummus served with bread.  It was ...

Murchinson Fall

Monday, April 19th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Signed up with Rosada with the Red Chilli for a short safari/camping trip up to Murchinson Fall and see the Nile Victoria.  Started the trip off raining in the morning so instead of taking the bodas to the meeting point, ...

3rd Week

Thursday, April 15th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Started the week with some souvenir shopping with Els who is leaving in 2 days.  We went to the Bugand crafts market.  The things there are beautiful and not necessarily cheap but Ugandan standard but to us it's priced very ...

2nd Week

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

2nd week ended.  It all just flew by.  The week was filled with alternating shift, AM/PM with another student, either working the ER/inpatient or having own consult room.  I would see my own patients, write the notes, recommend the labs ...

Ssese Islands

Monday, April 5th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ssese Islands are a group of islands that are on the Lake Victoria.  I went there over Easter weekend with 2 of the lodgers from the guesthouse, Els and Debby, Belgians.  We are meeting a couple other Belgians who are ...

1st week

Friday, April 2nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This week has flown by and was busy.  I am exhausted every night which is not only from work but also from the humid heat.  I feel like I have not stop sweating since I have step out into Uganda.  ...