http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess Connect with us and our community Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:45:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Interrogation: Tel Aviv Airport   After bumbling suspiciously at passport control in our sleepy stupor, Nick was taken into the interrogation room for further questioning… Security: ‘Where will you be staying?” Nick: “With someone we met online, its “couch surfing”,  an online international organization… Security (quickly): An online international organization? (Terrorists???)   Security: How much money ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=123 NEW PHOTOS YAY from Jerusalem... Ahoy beloved friends from home, those harking from the “Island nation” as foreigners like to call it. We have now left Uganda and are dropping in on a few places on the way (loosely on the way) home.  We are pleased to inform you that all the ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=120 One way to say "how are you" in ruchiga translates as “Are you here?” reply:“Yes, I am there” An hour and a half is a moderate sized lunch break. “Kamasimwe” (praise god) is used as a filler in sermons where we would use “um”. Everyone here seems to  know that God is Good, ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=118 Hey everybody, thanks for your support once again :) We have just uploaded our best photos yet onto flickr, so be sure to click the photos link, or go here:    http://www.flickr.com/photos/33079877@N02/ Football [caption id="attachment_113" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="All 23 of us with both of the hospital"][/caption] “What team do you support” is the ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=111 I run up the red path, banana plantations to my left, a pineapple garden to my right. How do pineapples grow? On the ground in little clumps, apparently. Two seconds later a stream of  little children trot along behind me, giggling and yelling: “Mzungu Mzungu!! (white person white person!)” “I’m fine I’m ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=108 With our powers combined, we are… Captain medicine! (yeah right) There are 2 new medical students here, Shi and Alice from Malaysia. Over the New Year with doctors on leave, we are doing ward rounds with little supervision. Together we nearly make up one “real” doctor, and are certainly not up ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=105 Me: “How was your Christmas, did you have meat?” Boy: (Big smile) “Yes, we had pork, very nice” Me: “And what’s that you’ve got in the bag” Boy: “Goat’s lung” Me: "Goat’s what????????” [caption id="attachment_100" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Complete with real baby Jesus!"][/caption] Christmas here is a massive deal. Preparations start days in advance with a Ugandan ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=99 HI all :) - Keen to hear bits of news from home in comments, tell us about what's going on for you too :) So stoked you got in Ben, congratulations! We are going to permanently keep our photos on flickr because it is just so awesome. We have added new ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=91   [caption id="attachment_83" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Hours of waiting. Even more epic for the patients..."][/caption] It is only 1:30 in the afternoon and this day has already been moderately epic Mornings here are gorgeous, the morning chorus here is incredible, matching the forest in New Zealand. Countless birds sing to me and some even ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=67 To records keeper:  “Really? I can just take this stack of patient treatment charts home for the weekend to make some stats?” To secretary: “The Medical Superintendent would have time for a chat? I just go and ask him myself? Right. Good, good….” To self, shuffling through files in a shelf in ... http://www.burnside.org.nz/nickandtess/?p=65