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Friday, August 04, 2006

International Brestfeeding Day

As we are wrapping up our work here at Ebeye hospital, we find some more or less useful things we could do besides completing our main projects. Earlier during our term, Conrad gave a bunch of presentations about Excel, and on this picture you can see me teaching doctors and administrative staff how to use PowerPoint. Doing that feels really weird for some reason, but it's helpful.
Right after my PowerPoint workshop, all hell broke loose, as it turned out to be the Inter national Breast feeding Day. With at least on delivery each day (!) on the island, hospital staff thinks it's necessary to promote breastfeeding. So they get a bunch of toys, sing Brestfeeding songs, and make a party out of it.
The "baby show" consists of mothers with their babies walk out on stage and collect their bucket with toys from the hospital director, while everyone is clapping. Because breastfeeding is where it's at I guess. This guy Allen had the coolest baby we thought. We're thinking of making him a new network administrator, because he's always happy and optimistic, and with the network here, it's probably the best qualification for the job.

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