May 25, 2008 - Journal Entry

"I'm starting to like the nursery best. The smalls are so heavy and they give me a headache with all of their jumping. My favorite one in there though is Susie Q. She's a sweetheart with a little pink nose, so she's also easy to tell apart from the rest. The nursery babies are a little easier to tell apart and i'm starting to learn their differences. It's just a few of the boys that I still get mixed up. In there, my favorite is probably Dingaan. He's a little blonde baby with a pink face and tons of energy. He always has a stuffed animal with him when he goes to sleep and sometimes in the morning he won't let it go. So he will take it into the hok with him and defend it and carry it around all day. It's cute but kind of sad because when he first came to CARE a few months ago, he was clutching a teddy bear because he was so scared. The family that had kept him as a pet used to put him putside at night and all he had was his teddy bear.

"I'm starting to feel a little bit homesick...and literally sick. For the past two mornings I've been feeling nauseous. Both times during my first shift, I felt certian that I would throw up but it passed. I got hot and was sweating all over and felt dizzy. Both times I took some immodium, laid down for a while and was okay. I think it might be my malaria pills. IDK. But whatever it is, I hope it stops and doesn't get any worse."