In the town Sarah and I bought thatch to put a roof on a new house. (We didn't do the roofing :)
Later we will go back and help build the walls out of mud. The house is for a woman who lives in a hut that is about to cave in upon her. She'd had a stroke a little while ago, too, and had spent some time at the hospital, so Sarah needed to get her vital signs. I knelt on a dirt floor with a dog and some chickens nearby and took her blood pressure, her pulse and listened to her heartbeat. It was so hot I was dripping sweat, and there were still prickles in my hands from carrying the thatch to the house.
Everything is so different here.