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 | I ran into Tabanka
2007-07-15, Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | I wished to write a story of how a spent a most beautiful day in the Island of Maio. I wished to tell you about the adventure of taking a boat just before the first sun rays kiss the islands good mor... |
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 | It´s the drums!
2007-06-24, Ribeira Brava, S. Nicolau, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | “Oh, my sister! Oh, my sister! Oh, my sister! What happened to you? They did not tell me that you were suffering this much.” My mother cries while holding on to her older sister, whom she has not... |
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| Greetings from Cape Verde
2007-06-19, Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | Greetings from Cape Verde!
It is wonderful to be back in CV. I have been planning this trip two years before I began medical school. In part, I came last year to volunteer so I could return here ... |
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 | afternoon at the beach
2007-06-03, santa maria, Cape Verde. By: diasman | | long day at santa maria beach, make new local friends and walk around the village. friendly smiles with always a short story to tell... busy pear in the bay... diving, swiming, flirting and fishing...... |
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 | It is time to say goodbye!
2006-05-29, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | It is time to say goodbye and I do not want to. I feel as if my heart is staying behind. It has joined with my umbilical cord to reinforce the chain that I had somewhat ignored. I wish I could stay... |
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| Coolness vs. tempest
2006-05-18, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | Capeverdeans’ relationship with death is remarkably different from that which I’ve witnessed in the United States. I grew up attending funerals of neighbors, family friends and acquaintances. In the... |
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| What is heaven?
2006-05-04, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | The color of a Capeverdean’s fantasy of Cape Verde is inevitably green. Green is the hope that never dies, the dreams that may never come true, but linger persistently in the people’s common consciou... |
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 | The scariest moment
2006-04-28, Mindelo, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | Have you ever had a moment you wished it were a bad dream and you prayed that you would wake up right away from it? I recently experienced that moment. Janise (my goddaughter) and I were returning f... |
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| Facing the operating room
2006-04-18, Mindelo, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | The doctor had been waiting for hours to begin the surgery. Finally, an operating room became vacant and available. I was going to observe my second surgery in Cape Verde. My assurance promptly end... |
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| On Cape Verdean women
2006-04-18, Mindelo, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | Being in the Department of Gynecology, I could not help but contemplate even more about the status of Cape Verdean women. There, I had the opportunity to shadow and work with team of strong women doc... |
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| In need of a guardian angel
2006-03-24, Saint Vicente, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | I’m in the second island of Cape Verde, which happens to be the second most populous island with the second biggest hospital of Cape Verde. I’m in Sao Vicente where I attended school from 7th to 9th ... |
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| On the way to Calhau
2006-03-13, Saint Vicente, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | After witnessing a painful colonoscopy, two lung-draining procedures, a sudden death, and hundreds of patient consultation (with many of the patients not following the advise of the doctors) the weeke... |
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| Sudden death
2006-03-13, Saint Vicente, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | She was lying on that white bed, lifeless without a breath of air going through her lungs. An all-female doctor-nurse team quickly surrounded her trying to bring life back into her body. I couldn’t ... |
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 | Carnaval, Euphoria of the people
2006-02-28, Saint Nicolau, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | At about 11:30 pm on Saturday, Febuary 25, I could no longer ignore my headache. The intense smell of glue had been attacking my nostrils for hours. I felt somewhat disoriented and sick in my stomac... |
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 | A special delivery...
2006-02-24, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | The birth of a child has always been one of my greatest curiosities. When I was 4, I would ask mom how I came to be her daughter. She would say that I was specially delivered by airplane to the top ... |
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| Who has not gone does not know
2006-02-20, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | "Quem nunca bai ca sabe"- Cape Verdean saying meaning who has not gone does not know
Doctor P said to me, “I’m starting a new exercise routine because on Friday we are going to Covoada. Do you wan... |
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| Turning a little into so much
2006-02-15, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | Sometimes, I feel like the doctors and nurses with whom I am working are magicians. Compared to hospitals in the U.S.., they work with so little. They need so many supplies that are considered a nec... |
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| My first days
2006-06-06, Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde. By: veronikkie | | I am back home in Cape Verde. It took me two days to arrive at my final destination, Sao Nicolau, even though the flight from Boston to Praia, Cape Verde Islands is less than 8 hours. I arrived at 3... |
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