Erin Has Horse Hair.

OK! I'm back! With a vengeance! (Or just on a sugar high)

I am getting transferred to a different part of the hospital. I'm too popular for my own good --- see, there are hardly any volunteers during the North American & European school year. The meeting that will finalize everything is tomorrow, but it sounds like now I will be helping in the cancer outpatient clinic. Apparently they're absolutely scrambled for someone to come in. There's a giant nursing shortage in South Africa, and the Red Cross is feeling the crunch. From then on, I will continue my duties in the housing unit. And although I've been asked to stop my duties as a ward assistant in the tracheostomy unit, the trachy nurse doesn't want me to go. Especially because I have been working one-on-one with an emotionally upset girl. She is without family and needs the stability of someone to see her daily. I only started working with her last week, so it's not like I can abandon her now.
So it looks like I'm on triple duty.

The ANC is soooo going to split. From what I understand, it sounds like some of the top party leaders are going to break away and start their own party. Oh, the political dramz! I'm lovin' it!


A child broke my camera (grrr...). So we are without photos. It's been sent away to be fixed, but of COURSE it would happen just before the weekend I'm going to Cape Point.


Spring has sprung. It's starting to get hot. Which is bizarre... it seems like right now all the leaves should turn orange and I should be raking the lawn. Instead, car windows are rolled down and open-toed shoes must be worn.

While you all at home are stressing like mad about the financial crisis, I am LOVING it. The States sneeze... South Africa catches a cold. The rand (South African currency) is doing very poorly against the dollar. When I arrived it was about 7,20 to the dollar. Now it is 9,19. Niiiice!

Listen, I'd carry on, but there's Survivor to be watched. Priorities are priorities.

More soon!

Amor,
Erin