Cheers, everyone!! I write to you from the Abu Dhabi airport where luxury is all about (seriously, if you haven’t flown through Abu Dhabi, you should plan to soon– it’s just beautiful!). As I was patiently waiting for my...
With less than 24 hours until our final exam you can note the stress in the air. Students are sighing out of desperation, there’s some major stress eatin’ going on, powerpoint is working on overdrive to deal with the...
It’s hard to believe that we’re in our last days of our adventure. We’ve come so far (it literally took Shalila three days to fly from Hawaii to Johannesburg) and have done quite a bit (learned how to conduct...
This weekend, we returned to Kashoba to film our movie about XDR-TB, Fight Like a Boy. The Mkokos would be our cast. Kashoba would be our location. We were ready. But in order to make sure we used our...
With three quarters of what was scheduled for yesterday left in addition to what was scheduled for today, we knew today was going to have to be very efficient. We rotated jobs from crowd control (which involved playing...
Although it did take some convincing last night, I decided to go with Jonathan in the “early car” at 7 am along with Shalilah, Katrina and Liz (the others came a tad bit later at 8) as we headed...