Thursday, November 27, 2008

Months Afterwisdome Teeth Removal

Weekly Review and Preview WE


Tagchen,
diese Woche ist es passiert: ich habe das erste Mal seit ich hier bin gefroren!
's night is now a bit cooler, so you can attract schonmal NEN sweater. But the day's still has extremely pleasant 28 ° C.
was working Technically, the week is not as spectacular, makes out the children's dentistry is no fun to be with nervous seven-year-olds in the lower jaws sixes (the first permanent molar teeth, you get to about six years) does endo (root canal treatment) plus abscess incision (uh, in there, cut out makes it hurt) conduct needs. Since then, I'm trying to get Dormicum, but also the national pharmacy has / does not know and on the way we have at the clinic, Valium, what is more likely to have pushed the ... na yes, it must go stop with mouth-to-hold.
Next week I'll try one patient in the 20 years or so broken off as a child, all four upper incisors with glass fiber endodontic posts (I've brought from Germany) to build up the front again. Of which I'll be back for photos!

But more exciting is that I am WE to St. Louis (in the north, near the border with Mauritania) for GOR go. GOR represents G Uys O n R etreat (something like "guys to rest"). So ne way men-WE for missionaries and Christian workers in Dakar and Senegal all of sports, golf (not as a sport!), Fun, relaxation, body boarding und Motorradfahren!



Euch allen auch ein schönes WE daheim!
Derre, Mike

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Bangbros Does Not Work

African Culture II

Der zweite Teil der Reihe Unterschiede zwischen westlicher und afrikanischer Kultur läßt sich gut an Hand meines WE auf Goree (die Bilder kommen noch, versprochen) erklären.




Es geht um Geld und Freundschaften. Für uns als Europäer ist es selbstverständlich und ganz normal, dass (ab einem gewissen Umfang) Geld in einer Freundschaft nichts verloren hat. Wenn sich also ein "Freund" ständig Geld von uns leiht und dann auch noch unzuverlässig im Zurückzahlen ist geht die Freundschaft wahrscheinlich schnell down the drain. Here, however, it is completely normal that friends (and relatives and neighbors) to borrow money constantly, and that will pay back the taken not as accurate or as one friend said: "To give is always sure, to give back not! " Money is a natural part of African friends, money is within the friendship. For Europeans, this results in but a huge problem: if you want to participate in the culture here means that you have your friends and relatives almost constantly borrow money, since your hardship or your needs are never larger than her you never occasion the game also to play the other way around. This naturally leads quickly to that one feels somehow being exploited.
on WE, I was with my assistant and friend Ner on Isle de Goree, escaped a bit of the city and tourists making tool. For the two Africans as it is natural that I pay as white her things. From the bus on the ferry to drink, etc. First, they themselves would never think something will make (because they do not have the money to acuh), secondly, they walk just for and with me virtually there, since I more than they Do I pay. It also promotes the African point of view, the growth of friendship. For us, it feels natural to quickly as if you look at the friendship would buy.
But this is one of the major challenges here: first, to be open to these new cultural aspects and the other one but themselves to stay.
A bit to my regret, I have read in 1 Corinthians 9.20 to 23 this week that Paul also has adapted to the people and the culture of his surroundings, to proclaim the good news. That means I will present my culture shock and adjust to overcome a lot to learn and apply understanding and patience must.

Greetings back to Germany!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Ikusa Otome Valkyrie Vol.3 Online

IBC International Dinner

Here are a few pictures that I got from someone at the International Dinner IBC just zwri weeks.
IBC International Dinner