SUMMER 2017
I’d like to say we chose a Ugandan elective for the adventure. A developing country. A health service quite unlike our own. Diseases we’d never seen or heard of and an opportunity to experience an alien culture.
The truth was we were penniless students and the hospital said they’d take us for free.
And so we touched down at 4 a.m. in a country I couldn’t confidently point to on a map, with inevitably the wrong currency and no idea where our accommodation was. The next city over, it turned out
Two months passed quickly in a …