Went out for half-priced sushi last night at
Rhapsody's with my flatmate and her friend, Lisa, who is working on her masters in
plant epidemiology. Another South African native who speaks mainly English,
she was excited to take us out. Her enthusiasm and extroversion were
contagious. They were much needed while we waited almost two hours for our
sushi order to arrive! Regardless, we had fun catching up and enjoying the
restaurant ambience. Lisa even appointed herself as our new "activities
coordinator" for the duration of our stay. I warned her not to offer up
various excursions or else we will definitely take her up on them, but she seems to
hope we do.
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| At Rhapsody's with Lisa, Tracey, and Eric. We were more willing to smile after finally having food in our stomachs. |
Today looked a lot like yesterday, observing more
physiotherapy students and shadowing one of the Sports Clinic physios
as he treated some local athletes. In between patients, we spent time in the
conference room watching the cricket junior finals (I think…) while the
therapists taught us some rules. I knew absolutely nothing about cricket before
coming to SA, so the little that I learned today feels like a nice
accomplishment.
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| Watching cricket in the conference room |
Once every patient hears that we are Americans, the first
question they all ask is, “Why did you come to Bloem of all the places in SA? We don’t have much here.” We simply explain that this is where the
internship was offered and since this is my first SA experience I have
nothing to compare it to. Even though they all ask the same thing, I feel very
blessed to be in SA (regardless of the city) and a part of the program.
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| The physiotherapy student clinic. People can pay 50.00 rand (roughly $5.00) for a term of being treated by the students. It is cheap for them and good experience for the students. |
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| Eric chatting with three of the physiotherapy students in their workroom next door to where they treat patients (pictured above). |
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