weather report: its about 30 degrees in the shade so therefore in the sun it feels like 40++.
and just so everyone is caught up on key characters to my dominican adventures, right now i am staying at a house beside a missionary family i worked with last year - phil (Pdaddy), donna (mommaD), scott (oldest son) and jimmyjames (youngest; i couldnt decide which to call him last year and that name stuck) ... p.s you can only see phil and donna in that picture to the right...
so when i got in last sunday there was a mission group down from canada working with donna and phil (and i happened to know three of the people). the first day we took some of them to the public hospital to see the conditions and help improve the children's ward a little bit. at this hospital the patients are totally reliant on their family to bring them food and water, bedding and anything else they may need, which is a mega issue if you don't have family - you can only be assured a bed and IV. some of the team went to hang out in the maternity ward and got to 'watch'/support two women giving birth. apparently a garbage bag was used as the sanitation for the table and within 2 minutes of giving birth the women were up, showering off and getting ready to go.
we also took the group out to villa nazaret where the clinic we helped with last year is and all i could hear as i walked down the path was "kike,
kike" (keekay) which is the dominican name i was given last year (because when you say "krissie" with a spanish accent it sounds like spanish "crisis"). anyways it was nice that they all remembered me, and seeing the clinic was awesome.
on thursday most of the group left and i got to sit in with doctor raquel in nazaret, and santo the nurse was teaching me to give needles (which i am supposed to wait to learn next year at school, but what the heck...)
since then we have mostly just been catching up on sleep and doing things around town to get ready for the next missions groups (hero holiday included) and to get the house im staying in ready for some other girls to
come stay (rampage jackson will be busy). and yesterday scott and i went to another village (redemption) to check on a family that rana and i helped out a lot last summer. if anyone remembers any stories about baby ruth, she is doing a lot better and although all the kids were still running around naked, it was laundry day so there is hope for them this year...
anyways, i am being taken to the beach today (sunday is beach day for dominicans - for real - before you go to church at night) so i can work on not glowing when im in a crowd. everyone was so shocked by how 'white' i became this year...
alright, i shall talk to you all later and feel free to email me if you have any questions or anything. alwaysfresh__@hotmail.com
love krissie/kike
p.s happy mothers day!
so when i got in last sunday there was a mission group down from canada working with donna and phil (and i happened to know three of the people). the first day we took some of them to the public hospital to see the conditions and help improve the children's ward a little bit. at this hospital the patients are totally reliant on their family to bring them food and water, bedding and anything else they may need, which is a mega issue if you don't have family - you can only be assured a bed and IV. some of the team went to hang out in the maternity ward and got to 'watch'/support two women giving birth. apparently a garbage bag was used as the sanitation for the table and within 2 minutes of giving birth the women were up, showering off and getting ready to go.we also took the group out to villa nazaret where the clinic we helped with last year is and all i could hear as i walked down the path was "kike,
kike" (keekay) which is the dominican name i was given last year (because when you say "krissie" with a spanish accent it sounds like spanish "crisis"). anyways it was nice that they all remembered me, and seeing the clinic was awesome.on thursday most of the group left and i got to sit in with doctor raquel in nazaret, and santo the nurse was teaching me to give needles (which i am supposed to wait to learn next year at school, but what the heck...)
since then we have mostly just been catching up on sleep and doing things around town to get ready for the next missions groups (hero holiday included) and to get the house im staying in ready for some other girls to
come stay (rampage jackson will be busy). and yesterday scott and i went to another village (redemption) to check on a family that rana and i helped out a lot last summer. if anyone remembers any stories about baby ruth, she is doing a lot better and although all the kids were still running around naked, it was laundry day so there is hope for them this year...anyways, i am being taken to the beach today (sunday is beach day for dominicans - for real - before you go to church at night) so i can work on not glowing when im in a crowd. everyone was so shocked by how 'white' i became this year...
alright, i shall talk to you all later and feel free to email me if you have any questions or anything. alwaysfresh__@hotmail.com
love krissie/kike
p.s happy mothers day!
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