Few Photos

 

The local barber shop

A burned down building just a ways down the road from my house.

This is the entrance to the hospital. The sign I think is funny because during a funeral people crowd the entrance and sing, cry, yell, hoot I guess you would call it. It's a really large event and no one gives a crap about the sign.

The van on the right is a Matatu which is the basic private bus system here. The drivers are insane and bribe the police to let traffic violations occur, like this gentleman allowing a couple guys to just hang off the side. Also notice traffic etiquette doesn't really apply here, you pass when and where you want.

This is a view of Kisii.

A couple kids walking in the no mans land between Kenya and Tanzania i.e. It's not very well patrolled

This is almost like a grill on the side of the road. People here just set up fires everywhere and sell cooked food almost anywhere.

Most shops and towns look exactly like this.

A soccer team getting warmed up. they were practicing meters from the Tanzanian border. I just thought that was an odd place to put a practice field. caption

The Tanzanian flag right as you enter the country.

This is my favorite. The sign saying you've entered Tanzania, but it's almost comically overrun by advertisements you barely know it's there.

This week at the hospital has been a nice return since being sick. I’ve been training in the medical ward now and have learned a great deal about malaria. Getting it certainly helped the learning process, as unfortunate as that was. I’ll have some really good pictures of cases soon, I feel bad taking photos of patients but I’ve made some friends who have agreed to it. I’ve also started a good amount of training on extreme malnutrition management which will be very helpful when I leave for the refugee camp later this month.

These pictures aren’t really hospital related but are really cool glimpse of the area. Some are of the town of Migori, some of major city about an hour from Migori called Kisi (We travel there occasionally for supplies). Finally some are of the Tanzanian border, I traveled there one afternoon basically on a whim, and to add another country to the list.