And so another week began, this time fraught with trouble from the onset! Our departure from Stone Town, Zanzibar was a difficult one: mistakes with our ferry tickets, losing out on a prepaid spice tour, rowdy queues, a nauseating ferry ride and a troublesome journey back to Mtwara from Dar didn’t quite leave us smiling – though we were all more than glad to be finally back at the COTC.
Work resumed as soon as we got back, with Faaria and Rute hosting the first in a series of Medicine Africa ‘Fresher’s Week’ sessions: a week of online discussions between UK medical and COTC students.
It soon became apparent that I had become quite ill and was bed-bound for the next five days or so, leaving my room only to continue with a popular introductory session to blogging. Here, I introduced blogging and had students sign up to blogger.com and start to create their own blogs. After being back in bed for a couple more days, a trip to Ligula Regional Hospital was in order to rule out a case of malaria; the results were negative – refreshing news!
Preparation for our trip to Masasi went underway, with all of us planning out our respective IT lessons that we were to conduct. We met Dr Wilson Kitinya – the very positive and young principal of the CATC Masasi – who accompanied us on the short drive northwest to the mountainous Masasi region. We met Mr Fred, the owner of the guesthouse we’d be staying at for the next week, and had an early night, excited about what the week ahead would bring.
Shirwa
Partnerships London Mtwara (PaLM) works between London, UK and Mtwara, Tanzania on health and education
sounds exciting, Shirwa!
ReplyDeletewould be great to see some pictures of Masasi - I've never been there