Last Medical Visit!

Today we went to see a sports medicine doctor. We were there a long time and we even waited in the waiting room like the patients do. Cause the doctor we came to see was taking patients and just talking to us in between patients. Is that normal? I don’t know. He talked to us about the World Cup though because he was part of a medical staff for it. Pretty cool…he showed us a bunch of pictures too, including some awkward MySpace-like pictures of himself. But we also got to see the hospital he works in, it was a really nice private hospital.

Oh this is a funny story. While we were touring the hospital, we went into the different wards and some of us were asking questions specifically related to the topic we’re writing about in our research paper. So after seeing the maternity ward, Morgan asks if there are any teen pregnancies that come through the hospital. Our guide replies, “Oh. Unfortunately, no…” and then she says something about the population around the hospital which is why there are none. I look at Morgan and I’m like—what the heck? Unfortunately no?? We continue. Downstairs at the end of the tour I decide to ask a question regarding my topic: “Do you have any cases of child malnutrition in the pediatric ward?” Her response: “Unfortunately, we don’t.” Behind her is my professor, Adam, and his face was priceless. Everyone was looking at each other like—did she really just say that? Then the lady starts to elaborate her answer and tell me why, I’m trying not to crack up and doing a terrible job at it. I’m thinking she was just misusing the word “unfortunately” but ohmygoodness, quite the laugh.

Then we were able to go to Gateway again for an hour and a half to use the internet so I emailed and blogged and talked to the fam and Bobby. No internet for another few days—woohoo! But in all honesty, this week went by really fast and I hardly noticed the no-internet thing. And now there are only 10 more days? Pretty crazy.

We just had dinner & a show, basically. Some more braai food (braai=barbeque) and then a surprise Zulu dance show! It was so cute & I seriously do not know how they memorize those dances. They even had us come up in small groups & taught us a few moves. I’m going to be a Zulu dancing pro by the time we leave Africa ;)