i found internet!

I think I am actually going to get along with the people here a lot better than I initially thought I would, so I'm pretty pumped.

I was the last of the interns to arrive, so I missed the interns' "let's all drink in the dorms and get to know each other" session. Sad, but we spent all day together yesterday at our orientation + safari trip + 30918 course meal. The meals here are filled with delicious foods but extremely heavy-- lots of meats (beef and chicken mostly), beans, breads, rice, pasta, etc. Our safari guide also gave us welcome drinks--aka champagne or orange juice for the non-drinkers. Obviously we just all made mimosas instead, though it took a while to convince our helper from univ of Botswana that people do actually drink these in the mornings. (This is kind of like when I tried to get an iced coffee at a cafe here and spent 20 minutes explaining that I literally just wanted regular coffee with ice in it, not a latte or frap-- in the end they just gave me a cup of coffee and a separate cup of ice. It worked, I guess.)

The temperature range is ridiculous. In the afternoon, it feels like summer in Philadelphia, but at night it's absolutely freezing. Yesterday my feet were numb for a good 3 hours.. I thought I was going to die.

Umm yeah. I'm at work right now. I just had to complete an online training course for biomedical ethics. Boring. I also apparently have to be at the hospital at 7:30 every morning for rounds and don't get off until 5. These are going to be some longass days. I kind of peeked in the hospital wards today-- it looks like one of those hospitals during wartime, with just a big room set up with beds and curtains in between. Going to be interesting.