Saturday, 3/12/05

Hola,
What a day!! It has flown by...I'll tell you what. This morning, Linda(one of my classmates) and volunteered for GR3 again. (Grendian relief fund). Again, the group travelled out to Dunbar and this time we delivered wooden toilet seats for the latrine and fastened them to the risers as they called them. This is how I would discribe...A latrine is like an outhouse, there is a hole dug and there is some specifics like 6 feet deep, certain width etc. and then on top of this hole they place a concrete slab with a rectangle hole in it. This is then placed on as much as poossible level ground. The riser is then placed over this concrete slab hole. The risers are concrete molds that someone made and last week they were delivered. So the people were excited today because we showed up with the tiolet seats and officially they could start using them. It was fun, we got to hang out with the kids again and did a lot of waiting and trying to figure out where we could deliver the new risers and toilet seats. I still had a good time, we left about 3:00 and Vip(another volunteer- 3rd term medical student) graciuosly gave us a ride home and then I was back on the bus to meet my group for dissection on our dog. We need to finish the forelimb and hindlimb muscles. We got fairly far tonight and so I feel better and less behind. Because we are supposed to start our dissection on the abdomen next week and we were no where near ready to do that.
Now I am in the medical histology lab, studying my histology slides. I feel pretty cool because the medical students do not have slide boxes and us vet students do, so I am looking at all these slides under the microscope that most have them have never even turned on. This is a definte plus having a smaller class.
I think I am going home in a little bit. Gotta catch the bus and then must do some Physiology before bed. Hopefully, my roomate will be up. She wants to go running with me tomorrow. I am excited that she is interested, she will not be able to go very long, but at least she wants to go. She needs some stress relief! Poor thing! She is doing good in school but she just failed a minor quiz on Friday and so she is scared. All she does is study though, so I am really glad that she is showing interest!!
Have a great night, by the way ...everyone I got a phone. Please feel free to call me whenever...just be aware that it is about 40 cents per minute for you to call me. The good thing is...it won't cost me anything. But it is expensive, so I really don't expect any calls from the US, but in case of emergency, like engagements,weddings, congratulations (like I got a job), those things would be great to hear. Enough of that... the number is 1-473-534-4828
Love you guys!!! and miss ya too!!