Hello long-lost world of blogging :)
It has rather been ages, but farewell to Africa in August meant farewell to the blog as well! But now that I'm back and settled again in the South Coast, here we go again... I can't make any promises that this time around will be any more successful, or any more frequent, but it is worth a shot!
For the past 3 months, I was back in my hometown and at my job at Sunbeam Residential Development Centre, nursing there for medically fragile children and adults with cognitive and physical developmental delays. It was a fun return to work with the girls there and with the kids - I think I was asked about Rehoboth and my time in South Africa every shift I was in; either that or recognized by the new people there as "oh! YOU'RE the one who went to Africa!"
I flew back to Durbs about 2 weeks ago now, and have been enjoying some sunny R&R before starting up at the clinic again next week. It's been an absolute blast seeing friends and Carl again and just enjoying the fact that it's snowing back in the homeland, and I've got sunburned from the awesomeness of warmth here.
I visited the kids at Rehoboth a week ago Sunday and absolutely got bowled over by the affectionate mobs of children running to say hello - so so lovely! Sometimes it's nice to go away, just to have the fun of coming back again :) It will definitely be fun to be with those kids all the time again!
I'm looking forward to jumping back into the South African health care system and dealing with all the fun little problems we don't get to see in Canada, and work towards making the little clinic something major and effective and productive. It's fun to have your own space to set up how it goes and be able to make change, and see changes made in the little lives :)
And on that note, turrah for now! We'll see how good I get at this!
