Kim Blazer

Update # 6

Hello everyone!
I hope you all are well.  Thank you so much for your replies.  I love them all!
I’m leaving for the states tomorrow morning and will be back in my cozy apartment in Columbus, Ohio by 3pm Friday.  I’m ready to be home, but can’t believe a month has gone by already.  It’s flown.
We visited Livingstone last weekend, a city in souther central Zambia.  It was gorgeous!  Victoria Falls is perhaps the most impressive natural wonder I’ve ever seen.  It’s the rainy season here so the amount of water flowing over the gorge was so awesome.  The mist from the falls created a constant torrential downpour of rain.  You had to rent raincoats if you didn’t want to get soaking wet, but truly they didn’t help that much.  We also took a sunset cruise down the Zambezi River.  It was beautiful.  We saw lots of hippos and crocs from the boat as we sipped cocktails and soaked in the evening sun. We met some really fun people from Johannesburg and Australia.  We went on a safaria and saw giraffes and zebras and monkeys and rhinos and impalas.  I also went white water rafting on Sunday.  It was so cool.  The Zambezi is so huge.  I’ve only seen waves that big in the ocean.
We found a wheelchair for the bedridden, elderly lady we wanted to get one for.  We took her outside yesterday for the first time in over a year.  She was so happy.  It was a great thing to witness.
We worked in the clinics today and are busy packing to go back home tonight.  I will definitely miss the sunny weather and friendly people here, but am looking forward to the conviences and comforts of life back in the US.
I start my peds ER rotation on Monday.  So there’s no rest for me!
Can’t wait to see you all.
Take care,
Kim