my day

7 am get up and wash with a bucket of water heated on the stove (or the coal fire outside if the gas is down) or wash my hair under the cold tap
7.15 have breakfast- if im lucky there will be pinapple- SO superior here but more often banana
7.30 leave the house- it takes around 45 minutes now for me to walk to work, (i am getting faster!) and change there. walk is mainly alond a dirt road. the sun is not too hot at this hour so it is a nice walk- unlike during the middle of the day
8.30 start work, cleaning for the fiirst hour, then talk to patients, ask nurses if there is anything that needs doing...
10.30ish have tea, it is made in the kitchen any brought to us in flasks, Makumi and i normally have it in her office or with peter in the lab. it is a completly different take on the idea of tea- very milky and very sugary, now i am an adict even though at the begining of the week i couldnt stand the stuff. and eat a 'dot com' or 'mendazi' wich are different types of fried dough that can be bought outside the nrsing home fropm stree\t sellers for around 5KSH (3p)
for the rest of the morning there might be some patients who come into outpatients who i will help mukami with, generally smile at babies, occupy kids... or i will go to the wards and talk to patients there or go the the lab and learn from peter abou how the investigations on patients are going.
1 have lunch- went into town on friday yesterday to post letters- took me 45 minutes in the heat, was not fun so wont be doing that again! i have been reading a french book so might do that or watch neighbours with the nurses who are all adicts.
afternon, more of the same and leave at 5pm to walk home
we eat dinner at 8ish with Nancy who has kindly refraned from preparing ugali so far... we eat in front of the tv which i dont like for three reasons- we get to knoew nancy less well, the tv is rubbish and i feel tired and just want to sleep on the sofa when im done with her enormous portions!
i generaly go to bed early as have been tired. but do of course write my travel diary first. and carefully fit the mozi net.