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| CAMEROON!!!! |
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room where I stayed the first night before
we got to Bamenda |
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| first meal:tea and an omelet (noodles, eggs, green peppers) |
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hotel room at Le Bien in Bamenda
(lived here for 2 weeks) |
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| Yum :) Grapefruit soda! |
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1 of 2 breakfast choices: fried potatoes and an omelet
(the other is below) |
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| omelet, tea, and french bread-my favorite breakfast choice! |
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fish and plantains for lunch
(every day at the hotel I had a choice for lunch: fish or chicken;
plantains, rice, or fried potatoes) |
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| plantains! |
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| rain rain rain! |
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| view from my hotel room window-poring rain! |
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| traffic--yikes! |
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| clinic in Bamenda where I worked for the first 2 weeks |
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| reception-Precious |
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| emergency room/injection room/dressings |
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| Dr. Atem's office/consultation room |
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| lab |
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| Joy running tests in the lab |
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| first birth I have ever seen |
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| clinic staff |
**next group of pictures is from our trip to Okwala and Tingo, villages outside of Bamenda where the Luke society has placed clinic. Okwala, the bigger of the two, is located on one side of the river while Tingo is located on the other side. The only way to get to Tingo was to cross the river by canoe and then hike over an hour to the remote location. We did consultations in both locations**
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| church in Okwala |
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| praying in church |
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| open air market |
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| kids getting ready to go swimming |
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| washing clothes in the river |
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we had to cross the river before
we could start hiking to the village |
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| crossing the river |
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hiking uphill and through a small stream
to get to the village |
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outside the clinic just watching me
-the children see someone who is white about once a year- |
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| children walking us back to the river |
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| after a long day of hiking to and from Tingo |
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| our lovely roads |
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Atem family: I ate supper at their house every night
for the 2 wks I was in Bamenda |
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| Joshua performing a dance while wearing a Santa Claus hat and Obama shirt |
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| Joshua |
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| peace and myself |
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| church in Bamenda |
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| special choir at church |
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| Dr. Atem and myself in our traditional outfits after church |
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| road we took leaving Bamenda |
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| leaving Bamenda for good |
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| scenic view of Bamenda |
**Next group of pictures are taken in Banga, where I was for 5.5 weeks**
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| surgery! |
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| uterus after birth |
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| newborn boy (C-section) |
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| papa Ray |
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| small intestines, complete with yummy fat deposits |
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| appendectomy |
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| waiting for maternity checkups |
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| birthing room |
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| newborn baby |
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| poor Sam..he is so sleepy :) |
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| picking guavas from a tree at the hospital |
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| theatre aka OR (and me with a guava) |
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| wound |
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| having fun injecting a grasshopper with local anesthetic |
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| a couple of amputated toes |
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| getting ready for the nursing students graduation |
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| after graduation |
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| cameroonian feast-including snails on a stick and fish heads |
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| Sam: my constant shadow |
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| rice, tomato sauce, and fish: delicious! |
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| pharmacy |
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| fufu and gery |
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| Esther cooking in the kitchen |
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| my fridge |
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| very very large grapefruit |
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| kitchen |
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| living room..termite infested furniture and all! |
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| bedroom complete with mosquito net |
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bathroom-most of the time we had no running water, so I used water from
the blue container for bucket showers and flushing the toilet |
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| my house from the outside:behind the hospital |
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| broom and wastebasket |
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| bench outside the lab: the only place I could get cellphone reception |
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| waiting area for patients |
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| rice and beans |
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| one of the maternity nurses daughter-Rose |
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| hard working lab technicians :) |
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| "take my picture looking in the microscope!"-Amelian |
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| hilarious kids outside my house |
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| apostolic church: Banga/Bakundu |
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| open market |
**pictures from Limbe, the last place I visited before leaving Cameroon**
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| visit to Limbe on my last day |
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the sea
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