Hikkaduwa EMT Class

The Emt class is 1/2 over and whent very well so far. About 15 students not including Sean, 3 student/ translators and two RN's plus me and a powerpoint projector are what we have to work with. Class is held in a spare hall of a local Budddist monastery. It has some windows and a flat concrete roof left over from the Tsunami. At 0800 when class starts its about 90 degrees and 90% humidity and things rapidly get less comfortable as the sun heats things up. We have to be inside for the power point which I use LOTS of pictures for. Then try to get outside for practical stuff when possible. But we have to fight for space with the monks, dogs, trains and cows. The 300 year old monastery is really a neet place to have the class. It is considered even more holy as everything around it including including a large train with 2500 people on bourd were killed or flattened to ground level. Getting the message across from Engish to Singhala and also getting a new medical vocabulary established is a tough, but it's working out because everyone really wants to learn. The pictures above are of water rescue practical labs at the beach, an anatomy and physiology lab which was made a lot easier by a quick trip to the local butcher shop to get some cow "body parts". (Don't wory we checked with the monks first and they said it would be o.k.) The other picture is a local boy very interested in our mock scenarios at the train track near his home..... a future EMT?