Call and Response Cheer

I do believe when you ask each and every one of us what was our least favorite thing about the clinic, and you will get a unanimous reply, DUST! Just ask anyone of us and we will tell you why. We started the day with breakfast at 6:30 then on the bus by 7:30, you never want to be late for the bus, for fear you will have to sing the rest of them, LOL, and by the looks of the lot, the dogs would start to howl if anyone of us has to sing! However we came up with a "Call and Response Cheer" for our team, here's how it goes.

Team India February 2010
Call and Response Cheer,

I got sand in every shoe
I like the bus ride, it’s like a zoo
We eat the curry every day
We hope our tummies will not pay
I’ve seen a monkey – how ‘bout you?
We end each day with a brew
Our leadership team is the best
But we won’t let them get any rest
This onesight team is outta sight
We’re off tomorrow, so let’s go out tonight!

Clinic today was incredible, over the last 4 days we saw 5,084 people! Absolutely amazing, It was extremely hot and dry, but everyone helped out, and kept a smile on their face. When we ended seeing the last person today, we packed up and moved to the next village, it too is about an hour and 15 minutes away from where we are staying, but at least this one will be housed indoors, giving us some relief from the blistering sun and wind blown sand. Breaking down a clinic sight is alot of hard work, we have to ship all the equipment and glasses with us, so it took alot of team work to get this task done. We didn't finally get done and back to our rooms roughly 12 hours later, we are exhausted! Tomorrow we get to sleep in and then off to the new clinic sight for setup, but with the crew that we have I am sure we can bust it out in a couple hours. We are extremely excited for tomorrow night and Sunday because the are our free time, I promise I will let you all know what we get to do! Tomorrow I will be posting some of our favorite patient stories from the team members, I would do it tonight, but everyone has gone to bed already and I told them I will get them from them tomorrow! Stay tuned..............