My name is Anna or obberdo which means “white person”.
The locals call me Anna because everything that end with an “a” is much easier for them to pronounce and remember. Wherever you go you are followed by a trail of children that shout obberdo, obberdo, obberdo etc. and they run to you to hold your hands and ask for your name.
I´ve had my first real trip to the marked in Makeni, a city that is about one hour away from Masanga. The marked is split op in a part that sells food items, a part with fabrics and a second hand marked where you can make some very nice deals. I bought a lot of fabric that I am going to bring to the tailor so he can make skirts, trousers and other things for me. At the second hand marked I bought two leather bags for 10.000 Le each. (100 us dollars is 430.000 Le, do the math yourself ;) )
For lunch I bought some grilled meat sticks with beef and goat from a little shop at the street and some fresh white bread from another man at the street. It was a very nice lunch!
In Makeni I also had a relaxing couple of hours at the Wusum hotel where there is a pool and wireless internet!
I have moved into a new room that I have inherited from one of the previous medical students who left some days ago. Now it feels like a home, with all my stuff unpacked and everything has its own place. I also have a couple of pet animals already, though they are kind of shy and doesn´t like to be petted. One is a baby lizard who lives on the inside of my mosquito net and hopefully it eats unwanted animals and grows big and fat. The other is a frog that lives in my bathroom, this morning I accidentally stepped on it, but it jumped away so I hope it is ok. Besides that I have a lot of the long legged spiders and many kinds of insect so I am happy to have my mosquito net.
Today I had my first day of school! I am going to teach at the Nurse Aid School here in Masanga for the last four weeks until their exams. I am supposed to give them a brush up in immunology, child health, the urinary tract and the respiratory tract which are the subjects that the previous medical students taught them during fall 2010.
Now I will go to sleep and try to find a good position for my head which can be a little hard with my new braids in my hair. Check out the pictures in the Danish version.
Hugs.
Anne.