asante sana muhimbili

today was our last day at the hospital.  tomorrow we will shop, eat, and pack and then board our planes back home. 

i think i have a lot of thoughts about the trip, but i need a bit of time to reflect before posting.  it has been a really great trip - full of learning, teaching, laughing. 

today was a fairly typical day of clinic and rounding.  we did make it to the canteen one last time.  and, today, i braved chips my eye... the french fry omelette.  it was actually very delicious.  and, we said goodbye to our favorite canteen guy. 

they decided to do a little mini-fumigation of the wards today.  i think it more stunned the cockroaches rather than killed them.  they just seem to move a little slower.  i think a big fumigation is planned soon.  we bid farewell to the cockroaches as well.

during afternoon rounds, we told the families that tomorrow we go back to america.  it was hard to tell them we won't be there kesho (tomorrow), as it seems we have all grown accostumed to one another.  they all say hello and goodbye and we attempt the same words in swahili.  they see us run from the bugs and giggle and we watch them pay the bugs no attention.  they each said thank you and goodbye and wished for our safe travels.  we thanked them and said until next time to all the bright smiling faces.