This last month and half has been another whirlwind of
activity.
1. Our
container arrived! After 8 long
months of waiting, our long-expected container finally reached Zambia. The brown rice was full of bugs, and
some of the foodstuffs had expired, but we were thrilled nonetheless to get our
own bed, our furniture, and a taste of home! It’s like Christmas in April!
2. My parents
came to visit! They spent 2 weeks
with us. During that time, they
helped us move into our new house, unpack our container, orient our new maid on how to cook Korean food, etc. Satipha is a wonderful helper, and she
is a great gardener as well.
3. We also got
to visit Livingstone. Some of the
highlights included: seeing
Victoria Falls in all its majesty at the end of a rainy season,
petting the lions (non-sedated!),
and riding the elephants.
It was a wonderful little get-away. The David Livingstone Safari Lodge was especially nice, with
a riverview from our veranda and dining areas.
4. Adventist
Health International, Zambia, had their annual board meeting in Lusaka. Dr. Dick Hart (President and CEO of
Loma Linda University, but also President of AHI) and his team came out to join
us for this important set of meetings.
Several key decisions were made at this meeting, which I believe is a
step forward for Lusaka Eye Hospital and Lusaka Adventist Dental Services.
One can never experience too many safaris! =)
Heather is officially my
first friend from the U.S. to come all the way to Zambia to visit me (apart from my parents). Anyone else who is interested in
visiting…you’re more than welcome to stay at our house! =)
6. I’m happy to
announce that we got our Pediatric Ophthalmic Surgery service up and running
again. We received a donation of
an intraoperative monitoring device, which is a wonderful addition to our
general anesthesia services. I’m
just so thankful that we were able to revamp our Pediatric surgery department
with new preop clearance forms, new safety mechanisms, new emergency carts, and
other enhanced protocols, and we are well on our way to helping many children
with their eye problems once again.
awesome pics and looks like a lot of fun times! so glad to see how God is continuing to bless you :).
ReplyDeleteLove reading ur posts! Glad u r doing well. Miss u dear! Kar
ReplyDeleteGood morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Zambia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Zambia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez