news on saturday

Hello,
What has happened this week? On Sunday Abdi came back from school and he was so happy that he has finally finished his primary education. How well he did, we don't know yet, cause the results come out towards the end of December. But we hope he managed to get good grades so that he can join a good secondary school. This week if all goes well I'd like to take him to a school with a very good reputation and see whether he can make it. It really would be a miracle cause the applications should have gotten there by August this year. But we want to try anyway. Even for Hanna-Joy and J-Benjamin next week vacation starts, a few more exams and they are done for this year. Always at the end of the term they are exhausted and ready for a break.
I don't know about you, but we followed the Piracy events in the Indian Ocean with a lot of curiosity, almost admired the guts of those guys who don't seem to fear anyone, not superpowers nor their sophisticated weapons. But they go and get what they want even if it is the biggest ship ever hijacked. On the other hand we see the desperation in the people who have been without a government for 18 years, living in total anarchy. Probably that is what leads them to do such daring acts because they have nothing to loose, they can only win.
Then on the other hand we got lots of patients from these camps whose bills are paid by the big organisations. Normally they are seen in the camps by our surgeons, and when they come and they are about to do the surgery some of them would say no to the surgery because that is not exactly what they want. That brings a lot of frustration to the doctors and staff, cause you know a lot of money has been spent and here comes somebody and says, no I don't need that I do it the way I want.
Well, that is only one part of what we are doing, there are also many good and understanding moms who accept whatever has been said. In fact one of our paediatricians told me that he was very impressed with the common sense especially of the Somalimoms, they normally know what is wrong, and in many cases if they raise a complaint it is good to look into it. They usually have a valid point.
Meet you next week on the same blog, Thomas