Not dead!!!

Well, blame it on South Africa, a rogue Zambian with a bad sense of humor or the BBC- apparently the Zambian president is in fact NOT dead and is still alive and reportedly making slow progress in Paris. I'm going with South Africa for the blame- they didn't treat me well last time and they've only got 6 hrs to redeem themselves tomorrow. I know, pretty harsh to base your judgement of a whole country solely on their major international airport, but they did me wrong. Back to the news...

How do missreport the death of a world leader??? Isn't that something you confirm before you plunge a struggling country into chaos?

Today was debriefing day, where we break into small groups and verbally process what we experienced this week, with a group of strangers. This is always an interesting process. The Tall One was made a small group leader and he was quite popular- they had to cut off the amount of people going into his group. I almost didn't make it and you know what, I'm so ill-humored thanks to my cold/cough that I would've been pissed to not make it into his group! Who's the 4 yr-old here?? Anyway, it was interesting. Key points:
-everything went really well for this being the first time this has been pulled off here.
-if you have a long-winded comment for every area of discussion, guaranteed you're talking too much and nobody cares what you say.
-also a bad sign, when you start turning into an ugly American and stating that you think one of the university's FOUNDERS didn't do something the better way, and I quote, "Well, I think that was wrong?" Really? Do ya live here??

We also held an impromptu medical clinic for the Northrise staff and students. Good times! I got to brush up on my manual blood pressure taking skills and the other two nursing students (who will be starting nursing school in the fall) got great experience taking vitals and testing blood sugars. I even had a guy with a fever- 101.4! This guy=sick, the other pansies on this trip complaining of a little post nasal drip=not sick!! Anyway, we had such a good response that we are going to open it back up this evening for more students and staff.

And this afternoon... we went to a gospel concert put on by the university, free to the public. It...was...awesome!! People dancing and cheering and singing- such good times. We had to leave towards the end of it which was a bummer, but now I get to type sweet nothings on a computer for your reading pleasure.

All in all, HUGE learning experience. I love Zambia and hope to come back soon. But I'm still sick, my cough is worse and I really want my bed. Looking forward to being back in San Clemente and seeing the ocean, I miss it. And humidity. I miss that a lot too.