Today was my first day at my
internship at Sarah Fox Children’s Hospital. I honestly had no idea what to
expect and was nervous to see what we were going to be doing. But right when we
got there, I didn’t feel out of place at all. The first thing going on was
feeding the children breakfast, and a nurse handed me a bowl of porridge and
told me I could help the little girl I was next to eat. The kids were all so
excited to see Mariko, Collette and I and were happy to accept our help eating,
besides the girl Mariko was helping who refused to let anyone touch her spoon
besides herself! We were at first in the older children’s ward but we ended up
switching to the babies ward to help out there. We met another girl from
America who has already been at Sarah Fox for a month, working with the
occupational therapist. She was super nice and helpful telling us how the
hospital worked and what we can do. There are meetings every Tuesday with the
doctor about new patients that come in and we get to learn what their condition
is and how to treat them, so I’m really looking forward to that!
Everything else has been so great as well. I am sad that
orientation is officially over but I am excited to get into the swing of normal
daily life and be able to have more free time to explore South Africa!
Yesterday, which was a Sunday, we tried to use the train station in Rondebosch
to go to the beach, but ended up waiting an hour for the train but eventually
gave up. However we did run into another group of American students, who happened
to know someone who came on the UConn trip last year! So that was really cool
and it’s just interesting to see other Americans here and learn about their
program and so on.
I am really looking forward to class on Thursday at UCT. The
campus is so beautiful it makes me want to be there every day! I plan to go
there more often after my internship to get work done since their wifi is
really good and it just seems like a good place to study.
Overall everything is going great! I could not ask for
anything more, except maybe a bigger freezer J
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