Desert Gills

Her first name means 'truth' in Greek, and her middle name means 'covenantal love' in Hebrew. Today is a birthday she will share with our #2, E.

We put our meds for patients in these little bags... its an efficient system

Grasshoppers are a seasonal treat eaten in Sept-Nov. A would often bring some for the kids... E liked them the most, while Ir found them a bit too spicy.

E on the Galmi playground, early 2009. Since Mom's due date is tomorrow, E and Ir have been singing songs to #3 so that she'll come out, and yesterday E sang to her, "Come out Bullinger... or you won't be able to see me!"

One challenges of the hospital is working in a computer-less, hot environment. In the absence of a lab coat, I was often stuffing two fanny packs full of reference books, a PDA, a pulsox, otoscope, etc.

Some of the Hospital staff on the tennis court, for national Labor Day festivities, in May.

T and our friend L preparing a wonderful meal for the compound.

I enjoyed singing with the men's choir at the church.

4 year old Ir is at that fun stage where she always asks "Did that really happen?" It makes for interesting challenges: probably her favorite movie is "Sound of Music," but it is hard to tweak out the real history from the fiction, since the movie is a mixture. So, for example, at the conclusion of the movie, when the family hikes over the Alps to freedom, we had to explain that "Yes, they really did escape from the 'bad soldiers,' but no... in reality they took a train to get away, as the Alps are not near Salzburg." So this week when a friend asked her about what she remembered of the movie... she of course began talking about how the family took a train to escape. OK, Ir... good memory... but that's not in the movie. This also becomes a challenge with Bible time. T and Ir began a book with catechism questions - one in particular that had fictional stories of kids that illustrated the catechism questions. So of course, Ir wants to know ...

I worked with and enjoyed these two colleagues a lot. In the headlock is T, one of our translators... raised by a Dutch misy. Administering the headlock is L, our head HIV prescriber.