This week classes were so full! I don’t think I’ve ever learned so much in such a short amount of time. Our classes were on food and nutrition, so with that the digestive system and all the stuff that goes with that. We learned about tons of vitamin deficiencies – how to notice them and then how to treat them.
A crazy stat we heard this week – the amount of people over nourished (overweight) worldwide has now passed the number of people that are malnourished.
Our teacher this week is from Australia, and one of the things that he did was start every class with a bunch of pictures of either something really big, or something really small. So one day we looked at galaxies, another we looked at creatures under the ocean (the weird ones that I’ve never seen before, not ones like Nemo). Another day we looked at a bunch of microorganisms that cause diseases.
One of the things that really stood out to me was how much colour is in everything – especially with things that we never really see, like the fish in the ocean they’re only starting to get pictures of, or these bacteria that most people don’t ever see pictures of. God still made them intricately, and beautiful, just because He can.
We also got to do our first bit of outreach this week! No healthcare stuff yet, but we did get to go into one of the slums to do a kids program. They have about 30 kids that come to it every week, so we just went along and helped out. We got to play games with the kids, and then do face paint on them. It was a lot of fun, they were all really little kids, so I’m not sure that they realized that when they talked to us, we didn’t get it, but it was fun to hang out with them anyways. They were adorable – it reminded me a lot of the stuff that I got to do in Thailand on outreach.
This is my school! Also there’s 4 staff that aren’t in the picture.
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