Too busy to upate!!

We have been putting in around 13-14 hour days every day. It is exhausting, but very rewarding. A typical day goes as follows:
5:30---wake up
6:00--breakfast
6:30--leave for hospital
6:45--round on patients in the hospital (post op)
7:30--start surgeries
--we do about 8 surgeries a day
7:00-7:30---leave the hospital
8:00--dinner at the hotel
--we usually gather around in the evenings and lounge around, have some drinks and talk/laugh. We have a really good team. We also occasionally get massages at night---which are wonderful!

On Friday we have a short day and we leave to go to the eastern highland region. It is supposed to be very nice and relaxing.....I can't wait! Then it's back for another week of surgeries.

One of the week's highlights: We had a big dinner on Monday night---very fancy---where there were representatives from the Ministry of Health, the American Embassy, and a bunch of other organizations. It is all very political here and there is a lot of propaganda. So the deputy minister of health got up and gave about a 45 minute long speech (because it was being filmed). He proceeded to talk about Operation of Hope and working together with a lot of other organizations. He said, "We have lots of intercourse--physical, spiritual, emotional....." So now we are constantly joking about all the physical intercourse that we have. It was pretty funny----we all had to really try hard not to laugh.

Anyway, I wish I could upload pictures---but it just takes too long and I have very limited time. I hope I can update this weekend!