Hi everyone!
The day started very early as we all got up early enough to get ready and meet Ted at the campus dining hall for another family breakfast! From breakfast we headed to the Child Development Lab for a morning full of screening some more cute kiddos. As all of us girls are suckers for babies we were eager to get closer to them, pushing Ted and the people of the Child Development Lab to try to get a few parents willing to let us screen their very young children or babies. We were thrilled today when we found out we would be screening not only one, but two young children; one 18 month old and an 11 month old. Although we are excited every time we get to screen any child this was an added bonus, and we were able to obtain some experience where we didn't think we would have the chance to.
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| Bre practicing otoscopy before the kiddos came! |
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| Jill getting Bre ready for practice pure tone audiometry |
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| Ang practicing tympanometry |
Our day at the CDL was very successful as we are all meshing very well as a team and have become more precise in our screening allowing the screenings to flow more smoothly. It was also successful in the fact that we identified a couple of children who could possibly be at risk for hearing loss, which is initially the goal of this trip.
Following our successful morning of screenings we ventured back to the campus where us girls had lunch together, and a couple of us ventured to the local coffee shop for some delicious lattes to wake us up! Later in the afternoon we attended a lecture given by Dr. Margaret Dotson and her husband Adrian Dotson on the history of Appalachian nutrition and common foods that were grown and prepared. We found the lecture to be very interesting, especially because each of them traced their genealogy, sharing specific things about their own family. We had some free time after the lecture where we relaxed and most of us took naps as we are all about taking advantage of any extra time to sleep. For dinner we were invited to the Dotson home for some home cooked Appalachian food. Our meal started off with a yummy salad, the main course included 3 different types of fresh, home cooked beans, and two different types of homemade cornbread which were called Bloody Butcher cornbread and Boone County White cornbread both named from the type of corn the cornmeal is made from. Dr. Dotson prepared both the beans and cornbread from scratch and it was phenomenal, we were all very pleased with the meal and how different it was from what we are used to eating. As if we weren't full of salad, cornbread and beans we topped our meal off with ice-cream and fresh organic strawberries from the college's garden, and coconut macaroons made by Hailey! This was by far my favorite meal of the trip, and that's saying a lot for how much we have eaten up to this point.
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| Eating dinner with our new friends & dinner hosts! |
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| The delicious Boone County White cornbread |
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| Hailey modeling the cornbread |
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| One of the three kinds of yummy beans! |
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| The college's fresh strawberries, ice cream and Hailey's macaroons! |
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| Us girls nice & full after the delicious dinner! |
After some chatting and getting to know some new people we headed back to the dorm where we are relaxing and heading to bed to get prepared for our full day at the Child Development Lab tomorrow.
Check back tomorrow for more of our adventures!
-Ashland
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