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KID'S POST: british things

A british ambulance - YELLOW!

And a strange little toilet!

Staring at the lovely british countryside and looking at planes!

update from enroute:

We successfully got our 400lbs of medical supplies on this airplane. British Airways kindly waived the overweight charges for us - although only 1 bag was over. So, we were over because 50 more receiving blankets got to go for the babies. YAY.

Saw a beautiful sunset on the flight. We flew over Hudsons' Bay, and Baffin Island and Greenland and Ireland, then Heathrow. The british countryside looked so lovely and a green and pretty and emerald-like. The flight was long, but British Airways took good care of us. And we all remembered our Malarone!

So, we are sititng at Heathrow drinking (expensive) British starbucks.

We miss you all already, but we are really on the adventure now....

xoxox

Sarah, Tina, Carole, and Jody

All packed and ready to go...

We are all busily packing and sorting and squishing and editing and re-packing. I can honestly say that if it is not in my big pack by now, it isn't coming! I will be driving down to Vancouver tomorrow and then we all meet up at the airport on Saturday. We will try to post whenever we can.

Looking forward to it.

Sarah

Interview by the Langley Advance Newspaper

You can read more about our trip to Uganda thanks to a fantastic article written by the Langley Advance. The link to the online article is below. Thank-you to the writer, Heather Colpitts, and to Tina for doing the interview. We leave in three days and will post more to this site as soon as possible.

http://www2.canada.com/langleyadvance/news/story.html?id=acc0cc95-0bad-440a-9485-6edaeb12964e&k=21742

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog. We are third year UBC students - Carole, Jody, Sarah and Tina. We will be in Uganda from June to mid-July 2009 as part of our 4 year UBC degree in Midwifery. This elective placement has us in low resource labour and delivery wards in Kampala and Masaka. We are supervised by UBC instructors and two BC RMs as well as Ugandan midwives and physicians. We have set up this blog to share our experience and so our friends and family can keep track of us in Africa this summer.

Honorary Consulate to Uganda in Vancouver

The Honorary Consulate to Uganda in Vancouver hosted a dinner for us and our instructor Lorna at Samosa Gardens restaurant.  We had the pleasure of meeting the Honorary Consulate to Uganda along with other individuals who were from Uganda. The evening was very important to us and we had a great time.  We hope to see the group again at a fundraiser for the Jan Project (http://www.janproject.org/) which trains Ugandan medical residents and provides medical equipment and supplies. Stay tuned for more details and how you can attend.