Happy Birthday Mom!

Hi again!!
Things are still going pretty great over here. This week went by really quickly, and I changed my first dressing! I was pretty nervous, but it I think it went well. I changed the bandages on a young woman who was invlved in a bus accident and lost her 7 month old child. On Monday, in the morning we took the HIV support group bowling, then, in the afternoon, an orphanage the community project has been refurbishing opened, so we went over there and played a bit with the kids moving in. There's a new medical volunteer, but I'm not sure I really like him. He's nice, but he just annoys me a bit. I did home based care with him and Mpho on Tuesday, then I had HIV education on Wednesday and Thursday in the schools. I had home based care again this morning, and it was a really good day. We saw a new woman who's on TB medication and ARV's, then we saw a 3 year old on TB medicaton, with sores all over his legs. This kid was unbelievable. I was cleaning and bandaging the sores, and he didn't even make a sound or show any sign of pain the entire time even though I'm sure it was hurting him. If I had been doing that at home, the kid would have been screaming the whole time. We went and spoke to another woman suffering from AIDS (her white cell count is only 20) as well as arthritis, and lastly, we saw the woman from the bus accident again. Her wound is definitely healing, but Mpho decided we have to change the bandage everyday because there's a lot of puss still coming out. One funny thing this week was the hundreds of marijuana plants I saw growing in a woman's back yard. She wasn't purposefully growing them, but weed is literally a weed, and it had just spread everywhere. I thought that was pretty interesting.
I finished my book, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin. It wasn't very good. It's about a white Zimbabwean, but it was written too much like an article. It had a lot of interesting information about what Zimbabwe is like under Mugabe though, so I liked that part, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm going to Mozambique this weekend with a few of the other volunteers. We're gonna hang out on the beach, and swim with some wild dolphins. I'll let you know how it goes.
I still don't have any photos for you guys, I lost my camera. I know, I know, it was stupid, but I'm getting a new one this weekend, so I PROMISE I'll have some next week. Also, ff there's anything specific you guys want to see or hear about, let me know, and I'll try to work it out.
That's about all I have time for. Please leave me comments either here or facebook, or email me (morgan_ross@me.com)! I really love hearing from all of you.