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| Chantal's new backpack |
Today, I stayed at Baylor and created the database for the facility-level questionnaires and began entering the data. It was much easier to put this database together since the survey was a lot shorter than the questionnaire for the participants. The only issue I had was that a few questions in the survey were a bit confusing or misinterpreted by the senior nurses who completed that. So the research team and I have to touch base with the senior nurses to make sure they filled out the survey accurately and understood each question. Chantal's data clerks, Neli and Nozipho bought her a new backpack because her old one was getting too old and had a huge hole on hole at the bottom of the bag. lol.
After I completed the database, Chantal and I met the girls downtown for lunch at Spur. I told our waitress that today is Chantal's birthday and all of the waiters sang her happy birthday and gave her ice cream. Chantal still doesn't know that I planned a surprise dinner for her at House on Fire. I just told her that I have a date with Francis at that restaurant and that Smangaliso will be taking me there.
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| Lunch at Spur on Chantal's Birthday |
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| Chantal's Birthday Cake |
After getting back to Baylor, ShaCoria and I think of a plan on how to get Chantal to House on Fire without her seeing the cake. But it was extremely difficult to hide our plan from Chantal! She was way too suspicious and followed us everywhere and she as questioning everything we did as if she knew we were hiding something from her! Even when went to pick up her cake, she noticed that I left Baylor and questioned me about it. So after work, Francis said that he was able to pick up and take us all to House on Fire since we had no other way to get there (at this point, Chantal still thinks that I am going on a date and that she and the other girls are just tagging along so that they can also get a ride home from Francis lol). Since we wouldn't have been able to hide the cake from her on the ride to the restaurant, we had to surprise her early on, right after work. Her first reaction when she saw the cake was "they spelled my name right!" lol. She noticed that I ordered her cake at the same place that we ordered Jessica's cake from and Jessica's name was spelled wrong, so she just had to point that out!
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| Birthday dinner at House on Fire - me, Chantal, ShaCoria, Jessica, and Francis (I'm not sure why the flash on my camera made it appear as if I had white stains on my jacket! lol) |
We get to the restaurant about 2 hours later than the time we planned. As Smanagaliso said, there is no rush in Swaziland. Time seems to be unimportant. lol. The other guys that we invited from LCI came about and hour after we arrived at the restaurant (they were lost and thought we were at another venue). Chantal had no idea that we had planned a dinner for her until we go to House on Fire. I'm glad she enjoyed her night!
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All
of us at House on Fire! On the left from front to back:Jessica,
Chantal, ShaCoria, and Glody. On the right from front to back: Apo, me,
Francis, Richmond, and Yusef.
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