I have just in the blog probed by friends who lived in the past few months in Nairobi, Kenya - and came to the idea of making an entry about how I've been living in Switzerland again, as I look back now and what this Gabon stay still lives on.
few days after my return I started my next internship in the medical emergency of the Inselspital in Bern. The trip home proved to be surprisingly smoothly after some confusion, finally, the night before I realized that I no longer had the return ticket - it was like another has already been stolen from my room? Despite a long search measures, including the rubbish it did not come to light. Sun went I hold off in the company of Owen with a driver of the hospital without a ticket. Owen still owed me money, which he intended as already collect in Port Gentil from his relatives in Libreville, which in turn owed him money. In Port Gentil then all debtors were straight away or by phone "not easy to achieve." This time we were sitting by yourself. The driver had us dropped off at the Tropicana Hotel, where Leah and Theo had already arrived two days earlier. I sat completely out of water, had just about 500 CFA on my phone card (about 1.25 francs), which would last for about half a Call Stuff, had not even money for a taxi, and Leah and Theo were not there. It was so absurd, that Owen and I could only laugh. We finally went without much hope to walk towards the airport, to find a working ATM machines - but the airport was out of service. In addition, we found a close and - surprise, surprise - he spit out money, freeing us for the second time from a slightly awkward position. Lea had then managed somehow without any evidence, my e-ticket into a ticket to convert, so that the problems were solved and drinlag even a short trip to a market where I could still buy a few rocaillesbesetzte Strappy ballerinas, it unfortunately for the substance, I still wanted to buy was not enough.
Well, to return to training on the island. I, who used to tell me I always used when colleagues were trailing by patients who appeared due to any small Bobos on the emergency, I had to get used again until at Swiss yardsticks. Getting used to was really for me is that people appear because of an ongoing 2 days ago colds with possibly some fever at the University of emergency - where they then wait for 6 hours, are widely Estens clarified, and finally released with a prescription for Dafalgan again, they are for 3.50 Fri and even in the pharmacy could have purchased. The cost of the emergency Intermezzo will amount to well against the 500 francs; Dafalgan an expensive ... It was also good. Due to the existing Baseline (time structures) can deal much better here with mental health problems that are left in Africa, given the (seemingly?) Prominent physical disorders largely ignored - if you applied in Switzerland as a doctor because even want to. So I had myself been involved with a senior physician trouble when I began looking for a patient, the acute under a clear and escalating psychosocial stress situation and suffered like a few days had been added to the crisis intervention center of the island. The doctor she wanted to send her home, although the third time within the last 5 days hyperventilierend appeared on the emergency. Looking back, I also had
just the limited diagnostics and the limited financial resources of the African patients learned a lot, I had to think carefully about why I needed a particular inquiry and what a result they would have, too often I had to opt for the more important of two important studies, as the money just was not enough. I first learned to pick out the truly relevant laboratory parameters and to assess learning. In Switzerland, I was first overwhelmed with the plethora of mostly been clarified, laboratory parameters. In most cases, I could also Asssistenzärzte not explain why now the confident parameters in the "Admission laboratory serve really," just the way we do it here, " "Yes, this value is outside the norm, but that is not relevant "...??!
Internships in Africa also gave me structure, so that I automatically re-introduced to the Swiss pace and the Swiss mentality. After the emergency practices followed by an internship and anesthesiology to a very short-organized training in a walk-in emergency clinic. With all the internships I was very lucky, I was able to work very independently, was also taught, and had great team around me.
beginning of May, then began the lectures on the closing price and I am now definitely decided to hang after one more elective year before I next summer at the final exams would go. After the end of last year I really was not very good, I wanted to or had to up a gear lower. I am also not so sad, I had already considered before long to make a second choice academic year and there are so many things that I see still want this additional year is even too short again.
I have a few to still have contact Gabonese few friends, some by telephone, sometimes by e-mail. The telephone lines can usually be set up only after several attempts and are usually so bad that it is hard to understand - I am indeed still communicate in French, does not make things any easier. The e-mail contact eingie weeks was not possible because not all Internet connections in Lambaréné worked. Sorry, but they are also working with very little lines disappear - they seem to be rather lazy about writing. In fairness, one must also say that it is not really motivating to travel first to the city to an Internet cafe to send e-mails at all can.
for Guillaume I had in March this year, like an exhibition space at the Youth Art in Olten organized to him to provide a platform for his paintings. My brother had done this very successfully for a friendly young Costa Rican artist who within a few hours all his could sell paintings and could not afford a plane ticket to Switzerland in order to paint here for three months and to establish networks. And after a second successful exhibition at the Youth-Art is a year he was even a kind of scholarship and went a second time to Switzerland. Well, unfortunately I was too late and all the exhibition spaces were already taken.
During my time in Gabon had I measure a lot of discussions with Owen on training and the associated independence it boot company as "employees" in his uncle. During this time he lived, was very irregular and at the discretion of his uncle's wage and it also happened that with his uncle the Money that Owen gave him set for a shopping, shopped for things to Owen and the money is not back him. It was so typical for Africa Abghängigkeit ... in which Owen does not feel particularly comfortable, but it is not looked after, that would change in the near future something about it. Owen had broken off like so many other young people to school and then seemed containing your failed attempt to have had to open a bar with friends about what he really never wanted to talk. I motivated him to take his own life in hand to get an education that he was interested in trying to be dreams from which he had a massive scale to put into practice. I was glad that he mancmal was very enthusiastic and Schmeider plans began to go back to school and still make up for the Bac. As one of the few he had a family in the back, he can finance the school and would, he should seize this opportunity. The more I was shocked when I heard shortly after my return that he had moved at the same time with his uncle, a rented apartment and had signed up at a night school. In the morning he went to work somewhere. So I had my course, not presented, I would have advised him to stop first step to school, maybe then take off with his uncle - and if all this would have really worked to take the step to Ghana to make the computer school, of which he dreamed. I was shocked and had the feeling to be responsible that I had pulled into something with which he was completely overwhelmed and that could bring him life in serious trouble.
In the wake repeatedly short phone calls from him somewhere in the jungle, where he earned with the impact of tropical timber money. Whether he actually goes to school this morning when he was so often away from home - I have his statements up to now not completely understood.
with friends who traveled from Switzerland to Lambaréné, I sent each of photos and small gifts to various people. An apparently true Solh program sparked arguments among my have that they did not get everything what had sent me and the others would have diverted his part;; friends like, I then found out slowly walked it but above all, a toothpaste that I left behind when I leave and around which one felt cheated by the other. This for the people there so typical jealousy and suspicion that you notice when otherwise only partially came here fully to light. Re: I can to all that want to understand those dynamics a little bit only recommend the book by the Swiss anthropologist "The Economics of witchcraft in Africa, or why there are no skyscrapers.
In July I heard that Lynn, her sister passed Owens Bac would have. She, who with her 20 years already has 2 children - that I find a really great performance. To be rewarded, I would like to give her a Swiss Swatch Clock at the end - with the hope that it might also spur the younger of the family something to close the school.
From Africa came with several returning again and again stone sculptures and African clothes to me to Switzerland, which I am always very. Meanwhile, I have half African wardrobe together. I wear them though hardly, but it would take a whole lot of courage, but they only occasionally to look at or to take home evokes good memories for me every time - along with many enlarged photos from Gabon, I've hung in my apartment.
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