Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Here was my day the other day—step by step
7:00—I wake up in Chimoio and grind coffee beans with a flashlight because I’m a total coffee addict and the only coffee was in whole beans.
7:30—Go to the Chimoio office and sit down with two of my assistants who are fighting. Everyone is arguing and the work is suffering. I’m going to have to keep on top of this situation. It’s hard when I’m based in Beira.
8:30—Meeting with one of the clinical advisors to discuss how we are going to do joint supervisory visits to all of the towns. She is a pediatrician and thinks that children are being left out of the treatment process. We discuss ways to monitor and track children in our activities and what kind of information we need to pass onto neighborhood leaders about children at risk
10:30—The car arrives that will take me back to Beira but first we have to go to the farm of my co-workers mother to pick up Mangos. We drive out toward Zimbabwe and stop at her basic but beautiful farm with donkeys, goats, ducks, chickens and a cooked pig hanging from the rafters of the kitchen. There are also three different kinds of mango trees and coconuts. We pick mangos, eat mangos, and chat for way to long and don’t end up leaving there until noon
12:30—We return to the office to pick up some packages that need to come to Beira. The woman getting them together is late so we head over to the Guest House where I was staying and I rip up the lemongrass and basil plants to put in my own yard. We return back to the office and then pick up the drivers kids. One more stop in the market to buy potatoes and we are off. We stop again on the road to buy charcoal and tomatoes but we fly in a new car (I was driving!!).
4:00—Arrive back in Beira, drop of my things, go back to the office to deal with paper work, pick up a car for personal use—tonight I’m taking the whole office out to a dance club. I’m given the minivan that fits 12 people.
5:00—Get home, take a shower (it is soooo hot), rest and do some laundry
11:00—Start to pick up the crew for the nightclub
6:00am—return home
7:30—Go to the Chimoio office and sit down with two of my assistants who are fighting. Everyone is arguing and the work is suffering. I’m going to have to keep on top of this situation. It’s hard when I’m based in Beira.
8:30—Meeting with one of the clinical advisors to discuss how we are going to do joint supervisory visits to all of the towns. She is a pediatrician and thinks that children are being left out of the treatment process. We discuss ways to monitor and track children in our activities and what kind of information we need to pass onto neighborhood leaders about children at risk
10:30—The car arrives that will take me back to Beira but first we have to go to the farm of my co-workers mother to pick up Mangos. We drive out toward Zimbabwe and stop at her basic but beautiful farm with donkeys, goats, ducks, chickens and a cooked pig hanging from the rafters of the kitchen. There are also three different kinds of mango trees and coconuts. We pick mangos, eat mangos, and chat for way to long and don’t end up leaving there until noon
12:30—We return to the office to pick up some packages that need to come to Beira. The woman getting them together is late so we head over to the Guest House where I was staying and I rip up the lemongrass and basil plants to put in my own yard. We return back to the office and then pick up the drivers kids. One more stop in the market to buy potatoes and we are off. We stop again on the road to buy charcoal and tomatoes but we fly in a new car (I was driving!!).
4:00—Arrive back in Beira, drop of my things, go back to the office to deal with paper work, pick up a car for personal use—tonight I’m taking the whole office out to a dance club. I’m given the minivan that fits 12 people.
5:00—Get home, take a shower (it is soooo hot), rest and do some laundry
11:00—Start to pick up the crew for the nightclub
6:00am—return home
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