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Trip Start Aug 11, 2011

Trip End Sep 01, 2011

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

This week has certainly been interesting. It has been a constant fight with holidays and generator function… Tuesday we only had the students stay for a half day because it was a voting day for a referendum ballot. So we gave them the afternoon to vote. We went to Phoebe hospital after class to see about working with them, and checking out their lab…and it was like pulling teeth! The lab supervisor was peeved that he wasn't informed about the visit, and irritated that we were trying to visit "on a national holiday!!" By the time this visit was done, and we were home for lunch, it took up most of the afternoon.

Wednesday was going to be mostly hematology (ie…needing the scopes for the day), and when we got to the classroom, there was no power. We jumped around lecturing off from the computer, and then rigging up a complicated contraption for running all our equipment. The projector will only run when the voltage regulator is on the 220 output, the microscopes didn’t run with that generator at all, and so we kept swapping out plugs and cords. Today, we again did not have power (turns out both of the university’s generators are broken). We were able to wrangle another generator, and this one actually could generate enough energy to run the scopes! So we were ecstatic (once we figured it out) I spent the morning teaching off of a laptop because we were still working on the generator and getting everything wired up.

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