Saigon River, view from the river! |
We've had a busy couple of weeks at school. We've had two "VOSH Ambassadors" come for a visit; VOSH=Volunteer Optometric Service to Humanity, an organization we have volunteered through before in the US. VOSH has grown to make connections internationally as well, for example, with the Brien Holden Vision Institute. Dr. Neelam Patel came from the Chicago area and the following week Dr. Thuyanh Le came from the Boston area, to meet our students and provide a lecture to them about eye care topics. They also brought some equipment donated by VOSH so that our students can improve their skills by using much-needed new equipment.
Dr. Neelam was able to assist in a procedures lab for our 3rd year students. |
Keep Calm! Sheep! |
Dr. Lori with a delicious-looking "diaper cake"--cute but inedible. |
Dr. Thuyanh handing over donated equipment from VOSH to our headmaster Mr. Long (and us) after her lecture |
Juxtaposition between modern, high-rise buildings in the back and "shanty" or stilt houses in the foreground, which are gradually disappearing with government clean-up efforts in HCMC. |
Bat swamp: we could see a lot of bats hanging in the trees on a small boat ride. |
A small puffer fish our guide pulled out of a small pond to show us the amazing bright green color. |
Bob handing the gentle monkey an egg to eat. |
Feeding crocodiles in the crocodile reserve |
One last teaching picture: our second year students are just learning the skill of looking into the back of the eye using hand instruments (direct ophthalmoscopes). We were able to bring back a fundus camera (old technology but still working) from the VOSH workday we attended in January, and the students think it's the coolest thing to see the back of their own eye using the camera! You can see how intently they look on as our teaching assistant Sang demonstrates the use of the instrument.
Time to wrap this up and get to bed. TGIF tomorrow for us; Bob has morning Academic Vision Clinic with the seniors and I have this same lab in the above picture with the second half of the class. Thanks for reading about our life in Vietnam!
What a retina looks like through the pupil, so cool! |
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