What has Kari been up to??

This week has been my first real week of work per say. I worked five evenings out of seven days, it can be quite tiring. What does the day of a Africa Mercy nurse working in ward D look like? If you are working evening shift it looks something like this ... wake up at around 10 am, eat whatever random meal they are serving for lunch (it usually consists of a variety of past dinners), hang out with friends or surf the internet til 2 and then off to work, once you arrive at work you pray with the other nurses and then get report on your patients for the day, while the patients are taken up stairs to the upper deck for some fresh air, you look through their charts and find out what your evening will entail, upon their arrival back your evening begins, there are tube feedings to give, medications to give and incisions to clean. If you have any down time there are always children to entertain. Even though it can be quite busy sometimes, overall it is quite enjoyable getting to know the patients. It is all tiring though, so I was very excited to go on an adventure on Saturday! Up at 7 am to go explore the wet rainy jungle that is Salone (short for Sierra Leone :D). After meeting up with some friends we hiked to two dams near Charlotte Falls. It was very beautiful, then we said goodbye to the friends staying overnight and were on our way home to a relaxing night on the ship!

Off through the jungle we go.

The first dam

The second dam.

Chillaxin in the back of the land rover on the way home.

Back to the madness of Freetown!