Well, school has been so intense that it has taken me until now just to create this blog! I've never done this before so I hope it turns out.
This is a picture of all of the students and staff in my school. We are quite a small school but that has enabled us to bond very quickly. I really like all my classmates and the staff.
All of us students have the breakfast work duty so we get up between 4:30 and 4:45am Monday through Friday to make breakfast for the whole campus which is only about 300 people. I'm finding it hard to get up so early and with all the homework and evening meetings it is also hard to get to bed early enough so I am very tired!!
We have covered many topics in school so far. I'm finding the school very interesting but there is so much information coming at us each week that I can't retain it all! So far in the 3 weeks of classes we have covered the following topics:
Water & Sanitation where we learned how many preventable deaths there are from water and sanitation issues as well as different ways to make a water filter.
We learned the 8 Keys to Primary Health Care
We learned about the main diseases which affect developing countries which are:
Malaria, Polio, Tetanus, TB, Pneumonia, Typhoid, Pertusis, Diphtheria, Mealses, and more!
We learned how to recognize them and ways to treat and prevent them.
We have learned the anatomical names for parts of the body and Greek and Latin Medical Terminology such as gastrectomy, thrombophlebitis, and epigastrium to name a few!
We've had a crash course on Pharmacology which entailed knowing the generic names for drugs, dosages, ways of administering the meds, side effects, and contraindications.
We learned about different world views such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Voodoo, Wicca, Communism, Islam, Basic Gnosticism and Biblical. We learned how each religion views a man, the universe, god, nature, history and death. We also learned how to see lasting change in a community and culture and how to work along side the people and get the most information about their village and way of life.
We have also learned about massage, and pregnancy, and child growth and development.
We have extensively studied the muscular system, skeletal system, the eye, ear and respiratory system. We can recognize, treat and prevent many common illness found in these areas.
We all have stethoscopes, and blood pressure cuffs and ear, nose and throat lights and know how to recognize a normal eye, ear and throat as well as the signs 
of most common diseases.
of most common diseases.We can take your respirations, heart beat and blood pressure.
We have extensively studied about dehydration, malnutrition and diarrhea. We can instruct on how to make re hydration solutions and how to care for wounds.
I feel like I am leaving out so much of the stuff that we have learned but I know by know that most of you probably aren't still reading this anyways!!! This is just to give you an idea of the intensity of the program!! Every weekend we have a test on all the information from that week. We also have book reports due, presentations, homework assignments, and personal journals that are read by our small group leaders.
My average week goes like this:
Wake up at 4:30, get ready for the day.
Work duty from about 5:20-7:40. Back to the room to change and pack all my school stuff. Hike down to the bottom of the campus (about 7 mins straight down 90 some stairs!)
We have worship, intercession, devotionals, or Bible study from 8-9.
Then from 9-noonish we have class. Lunch is usually about 40mins, then back to class til 3 or 3:30. Then hike back up the 90 some stairs, go to our room, study, go to dinner, study more, and go to bed, usually around 10 of 11!
On the weekends there is cleaning, church, homework, studying, test writing, and journals.
I have only been to a beach twice!:( I don't even have very much of a tan, one cuz at 3 when we get out of class it is already cloudy and preparing to rain, and two cuz we don't have time!!
I am loving everything that I am learning but it does get a bit overwhelming!!
If you think of me I could really use prayer for sleeping more, and continued health as many of the students have been sick with different things. Also one of my classmates still needs money for school and the deadline is next week!! I too will need to raise some more money for the outreach part of this program. I think I still need just over $6,000!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and for your prayers and support! It has got me through some tough times here but I know this is where God wants me and it is so worth it!!!
