Time with new friends!

          

Dr. Tadeo is a 4th year Family Medicine resident in the Kabarak University program. We greatly enjoyed getting to know and work with him! He is from Uganda and has an amazing story- he is the only one in his family to have much education and, at various times, has helped support himself by working

as a cobbler and as a high school math teacher! We had a nice birthday 

celebration for him a couple nights ago

with Dr. Lisa. Susie made "mung stew", a tasty concoction of mung beans (also known as "green grams") and vegetables served over rice.

 

We also enjoyed getting to know Dr. Gerhard and Janie Schumacher. Gerhard is the Medical Director and Janie teaches anatomy at the nursing school as well as arranges/coordinates the comings and goings of long-term and short-term visitors.  Yesterday, they drove us an hour to the city of Iten, where we walked through a huge open air market - there was a wide assortment of shoes, clothes, cellphones, knick-knacks, fruit and vegetables for sale!!                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                    

One vendor had a nice assortment of soccer jerseys that caught Dave's attention!                                                                                                                                           

After the market, we went to the Kerio View Hotel and Lodge. The Kerio Valley parallels the Rift Valley and is amazing in its expanse and beauty. This is the view we enjoyed as we had lunch on the patio! ....Iten is a training center for Kenyan runners but, unfortunately, we did not catch a glimpse of any of them!!

                                                 What an incredible view!!!!