Freaky Friday

Today was an atypical day at the hospice. We got there just as Doc Betty was finishing rounds. This turned out to be a good thing because we had a couple errands to run today. Our first adventure was a trip by foot to the Kamwala Clinic. We needed to go there for a patient to switch his ARVs. After we successfully switched the meds we were met by the Timbo express (the hospice car, normally driven by Timbo, but not today) as it was making a delivery to the morgue and then we rode back over to the hospice. We picked up Constance and Beatrice there and headed out to Soweto market. This was quite an experience. The market was very crowded and large and people were selling all kinds of things from fresh (well essentially fresh) fruits and veggies to clothes and chatanje. The ground was covered with old rotting food and this gave the market its own special smell. There was lots of intense bargaining done by Constance and Beatrice resulting in some angry vendors and other people who were trying to get us to pay them to help carry our goods and sell us bags. The trip was nonetheless a success and we left with the Timbo express stocked with cabbage, tomatoes, onions, tea, and some big bags of one of our favorite candies, choclairs. We returned to the hospice for a quick lunch of Shima and then headed back to Chachacha for what should be a nice and relaxing evening.