Day 4: Hospital Day 2

There are days where there is nothing that can really go wrong or cause disappointment, and today would be one of them. Today we continue our day at the hospital, and our first stop is at the heart patient room. We got the chance to meet the two heart patients, one of them being Hiền that we met yesterday. The other is named Quỳnh Như. Tran and Cece gave them each a gigantic stuffed animal. Apparently the bear was more popular…lol
My group continued our shift at the hospital by touring the General Surgery and Gastro-Intestinal Department. One of the nurses of the department showed us around the department and how things are run here. As a fun activity, we learned how to wash our hands using a proper way taught in the department. This proper way was written in poetry form, which I am quoting here:
“Together as one
Do not pressure each other
Do not divide the three split seven
Do not opposing each other
Go over the five continents
Find the hero
Join with together”
I am still someone confused with one or two steps, but Jonathan got it down pretty quickly. Our tour of the department ended with an hour of visit in the heart patient’s room. The heart patients were not present, but we interacted instead with other heart patients. Even though they are not sponsored by us, a lot of them are still very poor and had been through a lot. The two that I got to interact with during this visit are adorable as well. They are both very playful. I gave my whistle to one of them and he won’t stop blowing it. The other one liked to make guns out of building blocks. He liked Power Ranger and can impersonate their moves. Tran, Cece, Kevin, and Ai-Vy are so good with kids!
The best part of the day to me happened during lunch. Earlier during the trip the chocolate were packed accidently in a box and were lost while the boxes got transferred to the hospital. Steven blamed himself that it was his fault for this lost. During lunch, Andrew P. made an announcement, and said that everyone is going to chip in $1 for us to buy new chocolate for the orphans. It made me so happy that everyone offers this. It showed that they understand and know why they are here on this trip. We later purchased one box of 12 chocolate cases filled with chocolate that were wrapped in coin shaped wrappers. The cost was 264,000 VND total. Thank you so much everyone for your help. We’re excited to give them to the orphans.

Over and out.