On a very cold Minnesota day we are all eagerly anticipating our flight to warm and sunny Dar! Our early group is 6 of us: Lauren Turner, Lisa Huset, Randy Hurley, Mike Madalon, John Zurek and Jill Strykowski. Our flight is on time and we are all reading a great article about Medical Emergencies on flights to prepare ourselves. We will meet two additional members of our party in Amsterdam and our second Pharmacy student has arrived from Nigeria to Dar already and is waiting for us at Wista's.
We will be in Dar for two days which will make the bus ride west to Ilula easier to adjust to from a jet lag point of view. Our goals for Dar are to visit the US Embassay, and Muhimbili University. We may take the opportunity to take the team to Slipway as well- the view at sunset is gorgeous. Randy has the fish market in mind as well - all part of the experience!
Lauren, Prosperity and I hope to undertake development of a tool for future students. The tool may be common infectious diseases/Tanzanian treatments and a compare/contrast to US treatments. Looking forward to the joy of learning and working together! Such a pleasure to participate in this adventure and help folks assimilate, explore and work "shoulder to shoulder". We are excited and eagerly await this journey on this first day!
Thanks Jill! Great to hear it! Also thanks to all your friends at Allina who made the hospice kits. You have a few of the kits. We will bring the bulk of them with us. If you are one of those Allina People reading this, please comment!
ReplyDeleteJill, perhaps you could get one of the other Travelers to collect a single sentence from each of the others to put in a blog entry tomorrow, perhaps on their first thoughts.