Just a day, just another ordinary day...

Today, Kelley and Yin leave for America; tomorrow, a larger group of our group go home. It is unreal to think that after 5 weeks of being here it is time to return to America, Philadelphia, and most importantly, our final semester at Penn.

This final week, many of us travelled before we headed back. Yin, Tiffany, Kelley and I went up to Kasane and then Zambia for Victoria Falls. The most amazing night was sleeping in the Salt Pans, a seemingly endless expanse of nothing but beautiful blue sky and the most amazing stars any of us had ever seen. When the sun set, the sky was filled with stars and constellations from top to bottom, and we ran around without a care in the world. It was an amazing experience, and future Botswana nursing students, please make a visit to the Salt Pans a priority.

Another of our best memories was sitting at a laptop looking at our senior clinical placements- the internet for an hour cost us about 3,000 kwacha and was very well spent!

Finally, during the week of August 22nd-28th, Kaitlyn and I participated as student nurses on the Journey of Hope, a breast cancer awareness campaign through northwestern Botswana. We went with our clinical instructor Lucille, and it really was a true learning experience- our little group performed 870 breast exams total, and I can say that I think we will be very confident doing breast exams through the rest of our nursing career. We also got to see so much of Botswana- we gave talks and exams in Kayne, Jwaneng, Kang, Ghanzi, Toteng, and Maun. A very unique experience.