We're taking a break from real life and going on an epic road trip: around the world in two years.
For a few months we are all stuck in our houses, bored and not doing any of our usual activities due to COVID-19 :(. But that means a lot more time to cook and eat. I am going to write about my favorites that my family and I have cooked. Who doesn’t like a 3 […]
Before we started our trip around the world, the number one question everyone had for us was “where will you live when you get home?” (check out #4 in the FAQ). It was sort of maddening how often we were asked this. We were so excited about planning our trip and seeing the world, planning […]
Disclaimer: the views expressed herein are those of a teenager and, as such, may be affected by attitudes of angst, ennui, and narcissism. We all had a lovely time skiing at the ski areas surrounding Innsbruck! -ed. In March, we were in Austria mostly to ski, so I thought I would do a review of […]
Case #s 3-5: A Rough Day in Maternity The woman in the foreground with her hand over her face is a 22-year-old who had arrived to the hospital by motorcycle just a bit before this picture was taken. You can see her baby wrapped in a red fuzzy blanket in the left lower corner of […]
Case #2: An 8-Year-Old Boy Unconscious After Road Trauma This is the Minor Theatre. This is a place where patients are sent for minor procedures such as laceration repair (getting stitches for a cut), casting of broken bones, removal of casts, dressing changes for chronic wounds, incisions of abscesses, occasionally gynecologic stuff. Pretty light, patients […]
Case #1: An 8-Year-Old Boy with Extensive Burns Abraham (name changed for privacy) had already been an inpatient at Tengeru for a few weeks before I arrived. He had sustained full thickness (3rd-degree) burns over his upper back and most of his right arm in a kitchen accident. His treatment required regular debridement of the […]
Karibu means “you’re welcome” in Swahili, the language shared by many countries of East Africa. As tourists in Tanzania, we were continuously greeted with this word, even before we said “thank you”. However, unlike the suggestive and perhaps slightly snarky “you’re welcome” one might say, for example, to a child who has forgotten to say […]
It is with mixed emotions and no small amount of sadness and disappointment that I announce that the Occasionally Magnificent Seven have had to return to the United States. In obedience to the US State Department directive, we left Vienna on Saturday and drove to Frankfurt, from where we were lucky enough to get a […]
I know it has been a while since I have written. I have had other big school writing assignments. I wasn’t very thrilled by African food, and so I took a little break. I am sorry. This one is going to be a good one because I am nice and rested and the food here […]
The following post was written by Libbey as part of her Kindergarten writing curriculum (spelling was corrected by her teacher): Yesterday I visited the Maasai. The Maasais killed a goat. It was cool. The Maasais sleep on cow skin. It was really dark in their room. They shell beans by whacking a stick on the […]
