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I began this blog in February before the entire world stopped living "normal" life with the global spread of COVID-19. It seems that perhaps this is the time to finish what I started a few months ago. We are about half a year into living life in the vast steamy rainforest of Gabon. We have joined an amazing team of mainly medical cross-cultural international workers. There are multiple layers of culture at play here at this little mission hospital station on the hill. River waters carve around three quarters of our hill, the sound of the swiftly coursing currents sing on either end of our half-circle of housing. The whirling mix of cross-cultural layers here begin with the local host Gabonese culture, bringing it's varied tribes and languages. The Gabonese culture combines with the American culture and the Western medical culture that many in our team impart as they train African surgeons, ophthalmologists, midwives, and nurses including the relatively new anesthesia nur...