Last week we had our weekly clinical class (pictures attached). It’s about three hours or so of observing/interviewing patients every Wednesday morning. This time it was during a sandstorm, which, if you come here, I’m sure you’ll get to experience for yourself. We started off meeting a Bedouin man who told us about some of the Bedouin’s cultural history. Then we headed to the local school to talk with the principle about education in the community and the superintendent happened to be there and joined us as well. Later we were able to sit with a woman who used to work at a local clinic before her funding was cut. She explained the difficulties imposed on her in regard to providing care now. We asked things like, “can you go to the people’s houses or have them come to yours to at least educate them?”- something that would seem perfectly acceptable back home. Unfortunately, in her community, this would be considered very inappropriate and isn’t an option for her. These clinical sessions are all so different and all really valuable.
On a second note, there are also some pictures from our trip with the kids from Umm Batin. Umm Batin is a small town about 20 minutes from Beer Sheva. A few of us go there each week to teach english to the Bedouin children who are fantastic. They are funny, smart, and we have a lot of fun teaching and playing soccer. We took a trip up to Superland (a small theme park) this past week that they were all really excited for.
Unfortunately because of rain the previous day, the park was closed once we got there. Instead of being disappointed, they were totally unaffected. It was really impressive to me, thinking to myself that the teenage me would have probably complained quite a bit about the situation. We’ll be heading there again one of these weekends though and I’m sure it’ll be a good time. - Sam Nesemann, blogger of the month
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