Two weeks has gone very quigly and haven`t had time to write our blog before. After coming back from Malawi we vent to the cancer diseses hospital. It was very nice to notice that cancer diseases hospital was very modern, clean and the nurses there knew what they were doing. Tutoring there was much better than at UTH. Hospital was built in 2007 and it`s only cancer diseases hospital in Zambia. Before that Zambians had to go to South-Africa or somewhere else to get the radiation. Hospital is only for outpatients and the patients who are referred from other hopitals come to see the doctor who plans the treatment for the cancer and then the patients start to come to the hospital to get the treatment like chemotherapy, brachytherapy and radiation. If we had known that the hospital was so good we would have stayed there longer than week, but we had planned to go to Kafue next week.

We went toKafue, which is village near Lusaka, with group of locan nursings students. Pippa stayed in centre of Kafue with half of the group and she was working at Nangonwe klinic. They vaccinated babies, weight babies and they attented materity training classes and for one day they went to rural area to same things for those who are not able to come to the clinic. Paula went to Shanyaya with rest of the group to work at very small rural clinic. There was only one nurse and midwife working there and no doctors at all. Nurse screened all the patients and prescriped medicen. Most of the patients had malaria or diarrhea. On Friday nurse didn't show up so student were working there own their own.

We were staying with local student so all week we only eat sambian food for example nsima, potato and pumpkin leaves, kapentas which are small dried fishes, catepillars, fried chicken and beef and very salty boiled wegetables. There we a lot of huge cockroaches and lizards. And in the place Paula was staying there weren't running water in the house they had to carry the water from the well.The outdoor toilet was only hole in the ground and the ”shower” was a hay hut. Most the people in that village lived without electricity in the clave huts.

On Saturday Pippa and Anja came to Paula and rest of the croup up from Shanyanya and the children there went crazy when they saw three white girsl. They wanted us to take photos of them and touch our hair and skin. It's not very common to see whites in the very rural area. We think that they were really cute.

Somebody asked about the language proplems. I think that at the beginning we had more language proplems than we have now. The most difficult thing here is to speak professional english. Our medical vocabulary isn't that good but it's getting better and we have learned a lot. On the freetime it's much easier to speak English and also speaking with people who we know well is easier because the accent here is quite strong and sometimes when we meet new people it takes little while to get use to her/his accent.

We miss home but because we have bee very busy here so we have't had time to think home so much. Sometimes hits very bad but luckily we have phones and we go to the internet cafe couple times a week. At the beginning it was worse than it's now. We have already been here 7 weeks and it has gone quickly so know that we will be back home soon anyway.

Now we have finnished our practical placement in long term care. This week we started working at neonatal ICU more about that next week.