There was a big program for the 50th anniversary of Catherine and Reg Hamlin's arrival in Ethiopia. The hospital itself has been open for 30 something years. It was neat being a part of it, maybe the speeches were a bit long, but the neat thing is that their intention when the first came was to build a midwifery school, and instead they were taken up with this big problem of obstetric fistula, and now after all this time we also celebrated yesterday the official opening of the college! It was fun to be a little part of that as I'm teaching the sociology class there at that college. The students were so cute in their matching uniforms. I will be sad to say goodbye to them.
All that to say, it was a nice day but made for a long one. I am glad I was there.
