Although television is a rarity it appears that the current Beijing games have brought many of them out of the walls! The Jamaicans are estatic about their sprint champions...even Margaret and I are rooting for them. It really is amazing that such a small country has had so much success. Here I am in the library (Friday a.m.) writing this email and the staff was watching the 400 m relay...Jamaicans won another gold. Exciting....maybe this will help this country in some small way.
This week at our last language lesson I gave intructions to another PC volunteer on how to take blood pressure in Patois. Not one of my strong points..."Yu rap de cuff roun de uppa arm an skueez de bub.....blah, blah, blah." Glad that's over..hopefully we'll pick up more as we settle in. We leave for Kingston tomorrow for our final training, testing, and swearing in at the US Embassy next Thursday, August 28. After that we return to Chapelton and begin our 2 year stint. Things appear to be picking up within the hospital and community....maybe after September 1 we'll settle into a routine. One of my tasks is to set up the electrocardiograph room and train the nurses how to give an ECG. They opened a storage cabinet and put five machines on the table for me to look at...supposedly ECG machines. I have never seen the likes of these machines before...they weigh as much as the old black and white televisions (some of you probably don't remember what they look and felt like)...and look like them as well.
Margaret had a unique experience with a couple female health workers from the hospital...they went up into the mountains about 10 miles away and when encountering any group of people (cook shop, bar, assembled on a street corner)..the two women started handing out condoms and giving short lecture-etts on HIV/AIDs. Will let her explain next time.
Leita,
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