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boat tour to Lake Ngomo

After our first boat trip is a few weeks ago literally fell into the water, we tried it last Sunday nochmals.Guillaume had to organize a friend via a boat to the "Friendship Award" - was planned that we at Sunday morning semi- Exit 9th Because the boatman did not show up, drove Marie (who had joined us at short notice with Pierre because the boat man for their own planned trip to get a day had previously verdünnisiert) go with the 4x4 to Isaac to find the boat man. The dipped but now on by itself and had very short notice after also Catherine (from the Laboratoire des Recherches) joined us, we went go at last. Guillaume wanted us to actually prepare a traditional Gabonese picnic, as we in the market but found no fresh fish, it was holding quite common European baguettes with pate, tomatoes and mangoes. Also the fuel tank had to be - because a boat had no more gas station bustled, and before a whole other speed boat and canoes grape. Parallel from the canoes or fish, and Cayman have been sold. From the hip out of it I tried to take a picture.
Then finally it went towards Lac Ngomo. Lea drove the last part, while I am in the front bottom of the boat tried to doze a little - the last two nights I only came up 6, respectively. 2:30 clock in the morning in bed. In Ngomo even we were taken by a resident of the former mission station with Sanitätssposten. In the associated church, we climbed the rickety tower, which offered us a fantastic view of the surroundings. We enjoyed our picnic on the steps to the church and lined the way, the whole grape children who had joined us.
the way back, I should go, and what was really fun. Unfortunately, we came back to a tropical rain. I know slow, so the locals never bring rain protection - against a tropical rain he brings that is always nothing more than a little against the wind on the boat. Lows in the rain very quickly, which is on that day particularly impressive relative to river water showed - that occurred after a warm rain that is beginning as a bathtub before. Rain, a dashing at full speed on a speed boat in the face, is rather painful. But there had to bite through you wait, what else could my ego not allowed. Since Owen, the driver no longer knew where we were actually, we arrived about 11 / 2 hours after the rain start to x sweeping turns, draw water from the boat, Rinkrankfahren got a reed road (I curve does not quite always - had yes finally previously never been driven a boat), and loud singing and clapping in order to brave the cold, back to the hospital. Marie volunteered to completion The Day was at her house to cook and invited us all. Lea and I prepared the photos taken on the laptop before with a fun evening and Gabonese Photo / Congolese music on pizza, rice and even some rarem French red wine we finished this special day.

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Since almost the beginning of my stage here, we treated a young HIV patient with a marked candidosis (a frequent manifestation among HIV-positive). With her the entire gastrointestinal tract was affected, to speak of mouth anus. Swallowing was her extremely difficult to digest did not work properly, she had diarrhea for weeks. In addition, more anemia, and in between sometimes a blood transfusion. She had a CD4 + number of 4, the normal values are from 500 up - that is, her body had practically zero chance more to defend itself against any infections. And medical side of this ever comes to new infections with all antibiotics, antifungals and other drugs no longer. A few days ago they had so fed up that she wanted to leave - I had already played in the hospital directory. After talking with the brother she could be persuaded to stay on. Dr. Justin made it clear that they would survive outside the hospital much longer than a day, and here in the hospital nearer the grave than to life is. After her last somewhat better, I got up early this morning against the nurse with blood pressure monitor and asked me to go into the room. I was somewhat used to go to hospital to be completed before work still some blood examination Bons and was therefore still the only property of medical side. When leaving, I wanted to know how high is the blood pressure - they had to measure no more. In the room I found the patient in the arms of the howling grandmother, around me a lot more wailing relatives. I had never found the death of a person did not know exactly how to do that here actually knew anything anyway - but was holding there. I was looking for his pulse, tried cardiac action heard and was not sure if what I now heard the heart of the Grandmother, or perhaps even that of the patient but that hung lifeless in the arms of the Grandmother. I supported his head, threatening otherwise to fall back, and shone in his eyes: bilateral mydriasis areaktive. I did not know how to behave here the members opposite, you should keep it, should remain one, should you go? As once before experienced the death of another AIDS patient, shouted and sang the national howled for 1 1 / 2 hours in the room of the deceased. It does hurt very much on the one hand, to hear this. On the other hand I'm also the incredibly well. I would like to howl, to cry aloud in Switzerland, the relatives of the death of a patient, would sing. This death is not so quiet and withdrawn quietly with the soul and the environment wegschleicht left with nothing but deafening silence, waiting. It is a farewell, a mourning that informs the environment, not a silent acquiescence, but an active walking was an escort of the deceased to another place where you telling her that she will not be alone, but one you eventually follow.

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taxi ride death notice

well known, is the biggest killer of tourists in Africa a traffic accident. Who in Africa once a taxi or car is driving itself, no wonder the more. In Gabon, every city has its own color in a taxi. In Lambarene they are blue and white, in Libreville, I think red and white and in Port Gentil also blue and white. They are all falling apart a little on and rust, but I've seen worse - at the Moscow car coming but they ran it yet. In Lambarene the prices are fixed. From hospital to Ile Lambarene it costs 200 CFA, after Isaac (another district of Lambarene) 300 CFA - because the districts are separated by bridges over the Ogoue, so you pay 100 CFA per crossing bridge. From 21.00 clock in the evening to double the prices. A taxi is only full when sitting on the rear seats three or four persons in the passenger seat two. If then a few more children Sitting on the lap, are just a few more people. Numbers can practically only in coin, even in the shops you need constantly coin - only do you get it anywhere (instead of smaller amounts in coins you get in supermarkets, sometimes, a return of money in the form of Maggi cubes, which is here thrown in almost all be). Often times out by the police at the taxi-driver by means of road blocks and identity checks. Since it also often happens that the driver has no such features, we just had to even walk to go home (most of these taxis are stuck in the control). One evening when we looked in vollgefülltem taxi to dinner Isaac wanted to go to the second bridge has burst a tire. Fortunately, the driver has thrown very little and then stopped cursing. ... We went walking in the city. And for those putting their concerns - as bad as it sounds now, it is not. These were the only two incidents. The 4x4 we had verlocht itself, as the taxi drivers were innocent (see Blog: Le vol).
Even more dangerous are apparently the taxi brousse (also called clandeau), the only means of transport over long distances on the few bad roads, there is - unless you can travel by river. According to guide you to recognize the fact that they absolutely run-down state and up top crammed with passengers, were mostly small VW buses. Like this, especially in the rain, ever get ahead is beyond me, since we travel with the 4x4 with all the potholes and the mud already had our love trouble. Speaking of travel guide: before I left I found just two different - one in English and the other in French. Gabon is really not just a tourist destination. would have to offer, especially for eco-tourists, but quite a bit. This has apparently also the eternal President Bongo realized several years ago when he founded a network of national parks - after it became clear that the oil reserves (in addition to the wood yet Gabon important source of revenue) slowly run out to be.

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The Cat in the cistern

After rumturnen last Thursday a cat in the old cistern next to our shelter (the Case Bouka) saw, we heard them at night in bed suddenly blaring from the well. Apparently they had fallen in and of itself was not getting out. Then she meowed all night, I went the next day to Thibault. This hinschicken wanted but none of his men, because it was too dangerous, and anyway it would have too many cats on the premises. He could possibly get involved in the cistern water, so the cat can swim on top and could crawl out. Very resourceful. What else could I get the key and even go - what he said rather sarcastically. When the cat after 3 more days still almost continuously blared day and night, I took him at his word and I went out again to demand the key to the cistern and a rope. He sent me on to the director because he did not even take responsibility for it and looked for it as long as the key that I went and wanted to come to work again. After work I went back to his office - apparently he had but in the meantime, even the cat out of there. Either he felt pressured or his ego would not have coped with that I went down himself. I was right wars.

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drugs by the German military

end of November is the mandate of the German military in the Congo respectively. Apparently, in this context, the entire drug supply redundant and could either be donated to a hospital or laboriously transported back to Germany. Fortunately, the drugs have the Schweitzer Hospital in prospect, with proper expiry and should have good reception in early December, a second delivery was promised. The Admiral will come with him a handful of journalists and the crew of the cargo plane. Travis came two days before 2 German soldiers to Aussondieren and the journalists. In the short term was the visit of the Admiral because of something critical situation due to the elections in Congo called off and he was replaced by another big shot.
It was hard to believe that was herausgepützelt by this expected visit times at last all her ass moving and the hospital in each corner. People at the grass, sweep, clean the polyclinic, Justin reverse during rounds on mattresses, because the other side looked less dirty - so it would need a military visit here regularly, then each would once again put everything more or less back on track.
The whole visit was then drop off very quickly and smoothly - and we are probably the beginning of December will receive an additional charge.

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Le vol

Sunday before last we made a trip after Sindara. The village lies about 60 km from Lambarene and because of a monastery and a "cascade" worth seeing. Marie, the new French accountant must use the 4x4 administration and invited us on this trip. 60 km appear not far, but considering that only a small part of the road is there tarred and the majority either so full of potholes, that 20km / h are still much too fast or the road from all the rain, a single mud is, it soon becomes clear that good and it takes like 3-4 hours.
Since Marie has not had too much practice with the 4x4, she managed to even it somewhere "en brousse" "plans" to. In a 7. Months pregnant (barefoot) and her husband helped us rauszukriegen him again. We have then taken this far in the back a bit towards their village, and I gave my battered hr to replace T-shirt.
Although we were exhausted at night plenty of home, I noticed there already, that the 2 memory sticks are gone from the table, the morning still lay there. Since I assumed that I had even moved somewhere, I looked no further, but went to sleep. The next evening I noticed, however, that some other still missing, including the small receiver, the iPod by Kenneth Leah's Clock, and from the next room, Anne-Laure's alarm clock. The money and the laptops were not funny enough there. Since everything was closed when we came back after the trip, we participated in that have had the burglar had a key - a total of three. The Securité itself? Since I already knew, how would this be a nerve-racking trip to the police, I tried it first with a stop and the request that the stolen goods during our working hours to be covered - has unfortunately not worked. Thibault (Administration), I got a driver who would take me to the police and with whom I quickly came to chat while driving. At the police as expected Africa live: I explained that I only needed a confirmation of my assurance that I am on a list listed items were stolen. At first I was the ostentatiously disinterested commissioners of the questioned long and wide, if I or my roommate had let in for sure no lover of us could have been stealing, then he found that I had to first write a plainte, and I can it here at the police station or where else do. We decided to write it right away in the post - but had no paper. Well, we drove back into town down a newspaper store, where Jean-Guérain, the driver hit a frère (ie .. what any friend of the same ethnic group, but not his real brother), the journalist is. This grew into his car and strake guidet us to the House of Government, where we landed somewhere in a completely air-conditioned room with an oversized desk. But it was paper! The two then I dictate a letter dripping with mucus and then we drove a short while at another "frère" over before we returned to the police station. This sat frère, who bored in an office of the Telecom front of the TV, Jean-Guérin is apparently over, respectively, if he wants to free calls to Europe. During the telephone call from the guy asked me and wanted at the end, of course, another rendezvous.
The commissioners in a green military uniform sat straddled a chair and studied an eternity the letter. It was to see him that he was looking for something that was incorrect, and finally he stood up and demanded that I am somewhere in the middle of the paper still had to write down an A. Then he sat down again and read further. Finally, he asked again, if I only electronic equipment had been lost and no papers. When I confirmed, he said he had let me plainte write because he would have thought that my papers had been lost. Ouuuuuuuuu! I pulled slowly out of patience and I explained again that I only need a confirmation for my assurance that the things were gone. We were in the back room of some guy in front brought a typewriter, who demanded that I come back the next morning at 7:30 with two passport photos.
Since I do not, it considered that would actually work at 7:30 have someone at the police station, I went with another driver to 9, which dumped the waste me before posting. This time the boss was not there, I had to come back later. I actually wanted me first for an hour in the city gonna wind and then try again, but then drove a taxi back to the hospital - after all I had to actually work. And was also in hospital clothing in the city. Justin, the Gabonese doctor laughed at me and said that a chef working here anyway never clock 11. I should in any case the ask the hospital's chief Sécurité - that I had to be said of the administration even at the beginning ... . Anyway - that came with a few "among dogs" down immediately to our dwelling, and found what we now suspected already: that there was any child who came via hole in the roof and on the mosquito mesh ceiling in our room . I gave them again the list of stolen items and when I realized that she had no idea what these are, I offered to make drawings of it. This started then organized an inquiry found, and shortly afterwards actually made some plays. My ipod was apparently already in the city once or twice been sold (for a measly 5,000 CFA) - but in the end they actually had all recovered. It was unfortunately the boy who was caught recently been a theft in the hospital's own Lädeli (the Economat) - hidden in the refrigerator. From the Director by interim (by the interim - another funny story ...) he got a ship together, which was praised Sécurité and next Friday she appeared to be praised nor officially, so I will trot again. Thibault of the administration was angry because the Sécurité course, all the back through in-house "raised" and thus - as likely to remain the following Klauer land under the "ceiling", although most hospital area residents knew exactly, what has gone. The administration thus gets no access to such events and will be plenty of powerless and completely dependent on the Sécurité or their good will. I threw whatever I had my stuff again and the Sécurité bekamn sponsored a carton of beer from me.

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dinner and crocodile hunter

Last Saturday Anne-Laure and I wanted to go with people from the Laboratoire des Recherches eat in the city. Apparently, a woman is cooking (if I understood it has something to do with the hospital) on Saturdays for the entire laboratory team. Just as it sounds, it should be very good. To seven women, we squeezed ourselves into a 4x4 and so hott AGAINST in the city. Although prior to the premises on a grill already grilled brochettes, we unfortunately have been told that we would now eat at a different location - most of the tables had been stolen in the night. We ended up in a "private club" where dazustiessen soon afterwards the remaining people from the laboratories - including three "chasers crocodile", which were picked up by two laboratories in people somewhere. There were three Dutch "Environment and natural science students" who have come straight from Cameroon to Gabon. One was obviously already on the road since 2003. On the basis of South Africa, he had gradually prepared the north, the two newcomers appeared to replace two other students. By hand, they capture the reptiles to count any spikes on the tail and then they measure it.
The food was really good: brochettes de poulet et de viande (chicken seemed somehow not to count as meat gehäkselt ...?), rice, feuilles de manioc (is always mixed with dried fish), eggplant and some fish and a tomato-like sauce). The whole thing was set up at the bar and everyone could be together to find, on what he / she desire. At the eggplant I've used here necessarily slow in order to get there around not ... . The money was then very African. The proposal that we could simply divide the total cost equally, was not feasible - they did not know how much they had cooked and distributed. Thus came back containing the hour long procedure: each went over to her, told her what he / she had eaten everything, and it factored in to everyone.
yet to D'jino: along with the other "jus" (no, no fruit juices, but Coke, Fanta, ...) is D'jino (Dschino "), the Gabonese version - actually a mineral water with grapefruit flavor. It think there is also a pineapple drink.

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Culte des femmes

From a girl in the "hut line" live above our dwelling, and which had several times spoken to the French student Anne-Laure, we were invited at short notice last Friday afternoon to 19 clock to "cake". With her were high and we found ourselves once in a small "living room", which, even applaud, a whole group of women from about 17 to 50 years of singing and dancing was - and added to their ranks soon we initially somewhat perplexed at the clapping and Passing by without grooving were. A young woman sang a lead vocal, the other replied in chorus on it. Regular singing was interrupted by a hasty enthusiasm, according Gottespreisung presented by one of the women and highlighted by sweeping gestures. Immediately afterwards all the others roared with closed eyes and still wilder Händegefuchtel a kind of Lord's Prayer out, each in its own rhythm. Then the singing began again to once again of a prayer-interval to be replaced. It was comforting that not only us but also all the other women in the sweat poured down in torrents. Since the little boy did not look very "cooling", which I had during the following sermon on his knees, while each of several sat on the chairs along the walls standing. The preacher was indeed any book in their hands, the sermon was free and something completely different, in a nutshell: was she herself an outcast, be gone to the tradition Practices, have lost three children in succession up to God in their hearts would have left. The tradition Practices (= Ngangas, fetish priests, marabouts Charlatans) are bad. The whole thing seemed at times more like a concert for us, "Do you who are coming today evening, you feel that God is there today?" - "Yes" (in chorus) - "Do you feel that he is with you today?" - "Yes" (in chorus). "Those who can not feel the presence of God, stand up to - we will help you." I honestly stopped with two others and wanted to see what's coming. We were asked on each repeat the words presented in kits, in order to invoke God. Then those who were suffering from something or had a problem asked in the middle and should briefly describe the 3 "leaders" the problem. Then they were each one to one blessings shouted in his ear, partially replaced by an ecstatic "aratttata-ratatatatatatata-aaaratatatata" accompanied by their bodies contort in ecstasy, based partly again by a boy in order to present dropped. One of the young women so treated (in jeans and tight shirt) went into a trance to the ground where she was immediately processed by two of the "leaders". On the one hand, you ordered the evil to leave the girl, on the other hand Benedictions were talked about. All in a loud voice, accompanied by wild gestures, bowed down to the fallen girl, who teiweise spasmodic wall, as it struggles with this "evil" that forced the voices was to leave the body. Eventually, it got up again, was pulled up and then sat stunned for a while abundant on a sofa, while the singing-praying went on again. Lack of instruments was unearthed At some of our "hostess", a plastic bucket on which was created with any tool and blow the hands of the accompanying rhythm. On the terrace in front of the homes connected living room that had now formed a thick bunch of other spectators who took part for lack of space in the room from there on cults. Eventually, the singing was over, and there were "Jus" (which means here: Cola, Fanta and D'jino) and small cakes and snacks distributed. We were kissed goodbye, effusive hugs, everyone was really excited - until Culte on Sunday!
"Aujourd'hui c'est le culte des femmes, le dimanche, c'est le grand culte de tout le monde!" So this was our "invitation to cake" - with a little something to it. But that is the Africa that I want to meet.

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Fête in the Kopp

beginning of the year celebrates the staff of the Kopp (internal medicine, named after a former doctor) are each a party. Because of the imminent departure of the Swiss doctor who had worked here 2 years, this has been brought forward and took place last Friday evening. But all bought the same substance and were at the tailor a garment manufacture thereof, to the Fête to be dressed alike. I also had let me make one - it has been a great, easy to record on a sheet of paper, what you'd like to get this and then tailored to the body. In the art studio
find regularly scheduled events for young people, which is played and especially about HIV and AIDS - with the subsequent distribution of condoms, so is probably the majority at all. From the director of the group, a teenager who lives on the hospital grounds, we have invited three students also and should then act as referees in AIDS-question game. Like most here, the whole thing went pretty much in the length, so I plenty of time for a fixed in the Kopp arrived: Lastly - this is the "timeliness" of the Gabonese an achievement. However, the food was not yet ready. Too late, so I still was not. The "whole" herausgepützelte "yellow-clad company had already drunk plenty. The food came, was served on a buffet, dancing, singing, eating, bawled - drunk. Above all, Justin doctor. The whole took place in the morning report room, at the door and into the adjacent room that night the abundant noise-ridden patients and their relatives. Those were then given at least the remains of the buffet, which will be wrapped in aluminum foil distributed. At about 12 at night was the nightmare over. Total angle. But funny.

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La coiffure

Before I left I was often told that would look for me at the beginning of my stay about the same all black - I would learn over time but even to distinguish. I do not know where this attitude comes - I think the people here are here, both in behavior to look at least as diverse as the people in Switzerland. What makes it really difficult sometimes, the hairstyles of the women that change sometimes every 4 days. From long ponytail to artfully piled structures, with purple streaks, ornamental brackets, then a headscarf. Hours of lichens seems to be both social act as a means to fill all that time to be. Since one's own "European" hair is pretty quickly on fad.

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Life & Work - first impressions

Although I am only a short time here, I think I have very quickly adapted to life. So that it is already difficult for me to explain what everything is different. Today
seemed to me a little less warm than the last days - which means but still, that one with sweat after just a few steps all over my body. could be some minutes after a cold shower to start up a new contract - Man stuck ever before. You make this all automatically slow: a handle - a break - some Steps - further pause. At the clinic, on which we work from about 10 clock in the morning after the visit in the hospital wing, is an air-conditioning. Thus the whole working day, the bottom line appears somewhat cooler than the free days. But it is a torture to go in the midday heat only from our shelter again for the afternoon work.
This morning I tried to repel a chick that has strayed into one of the semi-open concrete drainage channels, to his mother. Because there is only helpless peeping constantly running in the wrong direction, I've finally caught and put back next to the mother hen. All the animals: chickens, roosters, cats - and of course all the many children running around freely on the site anyway.
will eat together in each Réfectoire - we have 3 students, some of the European doctors and a few other hospital employees. Also most of the clothes can be given to the laundry. And you have time. In recent days it has rained in the evening and at night and always violent. True tropical halt. Even now the rain has surprised us and we need it or not wet regenen have to get back to our barracks. The mosquitoes leave me in spite of impregnated mosquito nets, mosquito spray and impregnated clothes not alone. Well. Also, most of our patients have either on the inside malaria - and then tuberculosis, HIV-pos. or sickle cell anemia have - or more together. However, hypertension and diabetes, it has very many. This is, at least not that much different than ours. But it lacks many things. Today is the appointed recently supply of Glucophage (for diabetes Medis) all already. An infusion is lacking total. Basically, every patient needs
here at least one member who cooks for him and take care of him. Also bring towels with the patients themselves. Since is a first clear what a family, a woman can mean a man. That this can be vital. - In contrast to what I get to feel constantly in Switzerland, that we look for everything ourselves must. That the ideal case, is if you never need someone. That it then good, if everything was created alone.
Because the hospital lacks the infusions, the members are each instructed to go to this or another buy in the pharmacy and bring it to the hospital.
This morning on the ward I have seen bad - so I seem to automatically have now to some extent shielded - but it concerns me very much, but I'm still good.
So, this is a short view. More to come ....

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journey and arrival

As expected, there was finally a sudden massive amount of time before departure. I will my luggage five times in different case have tried to pack, I am 3 hours before departure have gone looking at lumps bars after a large suitcase and I finally with "violence" but everything put in the appropriate case - to put it at the airport to the part yet again to repack in Lea's case: being overweight.

About Zurich we went first to Paris and from there by night flight Libreville. The flight was fully booked until the last seat and gave one the opportunity to get used to sitting next thanks to an ever-pungent sweaty humid climate.

we met in Libreville on the departing two American students, whose place we occupy in Lambarene now. To 5 clock in the evening we drove towards Lambarene and met - with breaks, so the driver could do the last shopping for the hospital - about 12 at night in pouring rain on the hospital grounds. On the trip I made my first acquaintance with still a real Gabonese toilet - a free-standing in the backyard shed with wood floor over a large "cesspool" was inserted in the center of a hole.

Lea (the other Bern student) and I were quartered in a 10m2 room in a barrack, as the "normal" student houses are being renovated at the moment. It was enough even to replace the verlöcherte mosquito net through my own and take a shower until we are surrounded by the tireless Beating of the tropical rain night - asleep exhausted.