March 15, 2011 8:10:34 AM MDT
Subject: Boarding School Clinic
| Hello everyone! We are freezing, if you can believe it-in Vietnam. We are in Sapa which is in the mountains. The day started out with fog then the rain came in. It rained all day and was so cold. The wind blew right through you! We had our clinic at a boarding school for indigenous children grades 6-9. They are from several different tribes in the area. We saw 320 patients. Normally this clinic can last late into the night but we were finished by 6:30. I think that is a record. We were greeted at the clinic by the children clapping while lining the driveway. It is a once in a lifetime experience to be shown such honor by the children. At the start of the clinic we had the children waiting on benches outside to be seen by medical or dental. But as it got colder and colder, the children were shivering waiting outside so we invited them in the rooms with us to wait. The body heat helped all of us! We saw everyone without hypothermia setting in. After every patient had been seen, the children gathered in the cafeteria. We presented each of them with a gift bag. In the bag was a blanket, gloves and notebooks. They were very excited to receive such a nice gift The neat thing is they truly are grateful! They are very appreciative and sweet. They sang us a song that was beautiful. Another highlight is handing out reading glasses and this year we gave embroidery floss to the women who make beautiful handiwork. We invite them from the market to come to the boarding school so we can give them glasses. Several of them made their way there. They too are very appreciative.
We have another 320 kids to see tomorrow at a village school. We hope we have time to see them all because we will go on the all night train to Hanoi tomorrow night. Thank you for your prayers. Things have gone pretty smoothly so far! Raina |
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