March 9th

Today I started out with little to do. I filed the files away from yesterday and helped out with that kind of thing and then tried to organize and edit the document with all the mothers and babies in the HIV monitoring program. A man came in and was talking to Lillian in another language and she finally turned around and said “Do you know power point?” Ha ha so the man was doing a presentation the next morning but needed to put together the presentation. He had never used it so needed some help and had seen me earlier and when he couldn’t find anyone else to help him around the hospital he came back around to where I was and asked. So he gave me his flash drive that he thought he had saved his notes on but turns out he didn’t know how to do that as well. People here just aren’t used to computers; it’s a very uncommon skill so I was excited to get to help.  So we finally found his document on his computer, I put it on the flash drive and took it to the desktop. I then was able to go through and turn it into a powerpoint for him. He was very impressed (all I did was make it very blank and copy and paste his notes that he wanted as slides, oh and I corrected a lot of spelling and punctuation errors).  Then he asked for me to put a photo in on the last slide. The photo was in a PDF article so I couldn’t copy or save the picture from it. So using my tools and tricks from Moses Lake Industries, I found the “snipping tool” on the Windows 7 and was able to cut the photo and save it as a picture for him. Then when I put it into the power point he and Lillian laughed and just thought it was so great. Lillian even asked me to do it again so she could see how I did it. It was highly impressive I assure you all. It was nice to be able to help out with a skill I’m very good at.

This afternoon I just continued to help Lillian, cutting and counting pills.