The Travelers Clinic

This coming weekend is the beginning of Spring Break/Easter Break here in South Africa, so beginning Thursday night, we have 12 days to do whatever we want!  A group of eight other people and myself have decided to travel to Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe!  Although I dont want to give away too much about the trip before it happens (mostly so my parents arnt worried sick about me-sorry mom and dad ;) Victoria Falls is one of the natural 7 wonders on the world, and it looks beyond amazing from what I have seen in videos and pictures.
Anyways, back to the point of this post, today, myself and six others going on the trip needed to take a short adventure to get our Yellow Fever vaccinations and malaria pills because for the places we are going, they are necessary.  We all piled into a little Volkswagen hatch back one of my German friends, Eugen, rented for the semester, and went across town to a travel clinic that was recommended to us.  The very first thing I thought when I walked into the clinic was, alright, this is not like America! haha It was more like a pharmacy with one little office where they gave vaccinations.  There were no doctors, just nurses, but not even what we picture when we think of nurses.  In South Africa, nurses dont wear scrubs, they wear almost  military looking shirts, with stripes on them and puffed out shoulder pads.  Its kind of hard to explain, but I literally thought of a sort of laid back military shirt when I saw them.  The lady, who I am thinking was Afrikaans, that helped us was so extremely nice and also very interested in us.  As usual here in South Africa, it is very clear we are not from this continent, so she instantly had lots of questions for us.  While she was giving me my yellow fever shot, she asked my what my major was.  I obviously answered with Political Science and Law and she proceeded to ask me what the South African reaction to that was.  At first I didnt know quite what she meant.  When she elaborated, she told me that not only is it not common to have women study political science, but that in South Africa, political science was a "frowned upon" major.  This was strange to me, but I think maybe she meant being involved in government is very unfavorable here and that women are not as involved here as other parts of the world.  She then asked me what it was like to be that type of major in America, and I said not only was it pretty popular, but that a very large majority of women were getting more and more into politics.  She found this interesting.  She then asked me what I though of President Obama (we get that a lot here) and I gave her my opinion.  She then expressed her frustration about the government of South Africa, stating that she dislike the Apartheid, but that she also felt the current government is also failing.  She told me that she was so annoyed because people hate the way things are currently going but they wont vote for anyone different, and thus, nothing ever changes!  Overall, it was very interesting to meet such an interesting person and see what a foreign clinic is like.  Just an interesting experience!