First Day of Conference
Internet service over here is sporadic at best- so I will email all of you at once. I love it over here- so different- and laid back- our conference was to start at 8 am and I believe the participants arrived by 9:30!!!!! But they were all very intense and paid very close attention. They are also very intense about their scheduled 'breaks'--a restaurant set up tea cups/saucers (glass) along with snacks outside in the parking lot. The weather is cool and georgeous- blue skies- and people constantly bring all of us bottled water. Lunch and our taxi ride were an experience but we survived both!
I appreciate all of your posts/comments and your (LSUA) support. Our ASCP consultant group has members from the CDC (in Atlanta, and in Ethiopia), The APHL (Association of Public Health Labs) , ENHRI (Ethiopian group responsible for organizing their country and planning and asking for US involvement. The WHO (World Health Organization) is also involved. The other trainers are Medical Technologists from Florida, Atlanta, Tulsa, Louisiana, Chicago, and Wales.
This is definitely an experience. Our hotel is the Sheraton (google: sheratonaddis) is gorgeous and right outside our balconies our dwellings consisting of 5 odd shaped/sized pieces of metal- four sides and a roof. We will attend a 'coffee ceremony' while we are here and will get to visit Lalebele- another city that is famous for churches being carved directly into the mountain sides.
Our presentations are via powerpoint and are approximately on a 100-200 level LSUA course. I must attend a briefing so will close for now. If I can access the internet again later Iwill add to this comment.
I appreciate all of your posts/comments and your (LSUA) support. Our ASCP consultant group has members from the CDC (in Atlanta, and in Ethiopia), The APHL (Association of Public Health Labs) , ENHRI (Ethiopian group responsible for organizing their country and planning and asking for US involvement. The WHO (World Health Organization) is also involved. The other trainers are Medical Technologists from Florida, Atlanta, Tulsa, Louisiana, Chicago, and Wales.
This is definitely an experience. Our hotel is the Sheraton (google: sheratonaddis) is gorgeous and right outside our balconies our dwellings consisting of 5 odd shaped/sized pieces of metal- four sides and a roof. We will attend a 'coffee ceremony' while we are here and will get to visit Lalebele- another city that is famous for churches being carved directly into the mountain sides.
Our presentations are via powerpoint and are approximately on a 100-200 level LSUA course. I must attend a briefing so will close for now. If I can access the internet again later Iwill add to this comment.
posted by medtechtravel | 9:46 AM
8 Comments:
Cathy, I can't wait to learn about a coffee ceremony! And I wonder if only American like to begin meetings on time....
I also can't wait to hear about this "coffee ceromony". Isnt it funny how people from different cultures can beso different but also so similar.
It's great to know your conference is going well, and weather is nice. I look forward to hearing about the trip to Lalebele and the 'coffee ceremony'.
I bet it is so exiting to experience new things and cultures like that. Hope you have a wonderful time and spead some of that knowledge of "the way they do things" to us stuck in the sticks.
i hope your taking alot of pictures or video feed. thatd be terrible to not have documentation of the memories. good to here its laid back over there. anything that can be comfortable seems nice. so what happened in the cab?
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Hello Mrs. Cathy, we are behaving in blood bank. We did cross matching today at the lab. Becky read the e-mail you send her. I hope your students are as good as we are. :)
Your trip sounds amazing and beautiful. Also sounds like you are having a wonderful time! I can't wait to here more about your wonderful experiences! Hope you keep having an amazing experience.
Don't get to comfortable you may not want to come back here with us. I hope you enjoy the coffe ceremony.Make sure you do take alot of pictures I will like to see how the differnt cultures from Americans.
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