In denile!

I am in denile!!!

I do not leave Botswana next week!
Classes are not over!
I do not have exams tomorrow!
My time at the vet clinic is not limited!
My supply of papatas are not coming to an end!
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I believe my state of denile is moving into panic mode.  This can't be the end.  It just can't.  Where did time go?

I can say I've been making the best of it.  I've stayed so busy!  This weekend I visited malls looking for small souveners, I ate at "chickin lickin" for the first time, I hiked Kgale hill again, I relaxed by a hotel pool, I watched several movies, I read a little bit,  I swam laps, and I ran.  I also had the best mango mojitos at a restaurant in Riverwalk.  It was a goodbye dinner for our friends from Sweden.  They left Monday.  It looks like the goodbyes have started already.  :( 

I started off my Monday at the vet clinic.  It was pretty busy!  I didn't get out of there until 2.  I was able to see a small surgery to remove a fatty tumor off an old dog.  After I left the vet clinic, I hurried home to eat lunch and then met my friends at the UB pool.  It feels so refreshing to jump in the pool when it is 100 degrees out!  After the pool, I finally realized that I had exams approaching and then I should probably study.  I put in a couple hours of studying (check), went for a run, and then got ready for a night out on the town.  By night out, I mean going to the movies, but hey you have to get excited about the small things!  A group of us went to see twilight.  Yes, yes, judge me if you must but it had to happen.  I enjoyed an apple, sour gummy worms, and flavored water while checking out Edward and Jacob. It happens.  

This morning I propelled myself out of bed, ate delicious sorghum porridge, and headed to the vet clinic.  It turned out to be one of the most interesting and diverse days I've had there.  The morning started off with a rabbit  who had some form of paralysis.  It's the first bunny I've seen in bots.  Oh it was so soft and fluffy!! Cute!  (Emma, couldn't help but hear your "bunny" voice running through by head.)  We had a couple dogs in for regular vaccinations, a dog in with back leg paralysis (diagnosed to be tick paralysis), a sick dog we ran blood on (turned out to be some type of blood parasite), and a dog with a bone stuck in it's throat.   We then had a farm call at 3.  I was sooo excited for the farm call.  I hadn't been on one before.  We went out to Odi, down this long dirt road and ended at a small hut with goats.  There were adults and kids (baby goats) fenced in.   The kids had been dying at a high number in the last several days.  The vet diagnosed them with coccidia and we gave each of the 28 kids injections.  It was a great experience!  First, can I say just how cute baby goats are!  Second,  there was a little girl out there helping us and I assume her parents round up the goats and she was a beast.  She moved those kids around like a boss even though they were probably half her size. 

The doctor and tech dropped me off at UB when we finished and I made it back to the dorms just in time to join the group run.  Eish,  I actually wasn't excited about this.  But neverless, I ran!  CHECK!  After our run, we drank iced coffee and caught up as we continued to avoid studying.  Now, I should probably really hanker down and read about the kidneys and the wonderful work of nephrons. 

Sala Sentle 
(Stay well)