What a day!!! It was group project in the morning as the projects in Nairobi and the organised trip to the village market were cancelled again. Today's group project was a killer... Honestly was back breaking! There was 8 of us who had to help build a cow shed/chicken coup at a local school. To start with we had to bag up hardcore and carry the bags into the already made troughs, I ended up doing the shovelling and filling the bags and the others carried the ba...

Habari za asubuhi! Today was my last day nursing at Karuri, as tomorrow is a community project day and next week I am moving projects to work at His Image, which is a baby orphanage! I didn't sleep well last night but woke feeling much better than yesterday :) Was texting auntie rosemary at breakfast as she wasn't sleeping well back home. It was an exciting morning for me in Karuri as I helped one of the nurses in the labour room, deliver an 8lb8oz baby girl...

Well what can I say about today..?! I woke feeling bit worse than yesterday, had a cough since the weekend but seem to be coming down with a bit of the cold now :( and felt really sick. Never the less, I was still fine :) It was a community project day, and the morning was spent at the feeding programme! Really can't believe it's two weeks since we last went to help hand out food supplies to the same 400 elderly/sick people. This programme really does make ...

This morning was gorgeous!!! Woke to a really nice email and text which made me smile :) the sun was shining, had amazing homemade pancakes for breakfast, received two Scotland postcards from Mum (I really didnt think they would actually reach me) and hopefully we will be allowed back into Nairobi this week!!! It was all good for a Tuesday morning :) Today I was working in the treatment room with another student nurse called Elizabeth! My pockets were full of l...

Monday morning already, so was back to the nursing malarkey at Karuri Health Centre and back to the sort of nursing Im accustomed too! This week I am working in the treatment room of the health centre with Cecilla a new student nurse!! The room is very basic, and is split into two parts, one half is the area for dressings and the other is for the injections!! I will try and take photos this week so people can actually see what it's like. Theres a bench for peo...