Things are cruising along here in Bolivia. We have been getting lots of work done on each of our projects during the last couple of weeks. Today, I visited the government Health Services Office to to find some demographic information for my cervical cancer project. While I do think that my Spanish is improving, it still is always difficult to understand anyone who continues to speak at a normal speed despite knowing that my Spanish is not very good! I managed to find out what I needed, with some help from Derek. In the afternoon, I went to the hospital with Mike to visit a patient from Palacios who has been in the hospital for several months now. His name is Ruddy (pronounced Rudy, like the Notre Dame football movie!), and he is always very appreciative of our visits. It's always amazing to visit this hospital, Hospital Japones, as it is so different than any hospital that I have ever been to at home. It is a public hospital, like Cook County Hospital, so it has less resources than some of the private hospitals in Santa Cruz.
In addition to working hard, we have had lots of fun. On Friday, we had a great fiesta in honor of Dr. Hou's arrival. She will be here through Saturday working with us at the clinic. It's fun to be down here to learn from the founder herself as much as we can about the clinic and its future. For the party, Derek made the largest bowl of guacamole that I have ever seen, and he grilled probably 75 kabobs! Last weekend we went to Mariposario - a wonderful place with a butterfly sanctuary, pools, water slides, kyaking, horseback riding, eating, hiking, and more. We even saw three sloths up in the trees in the butterfly sanctuary! And, on Saturday night we went out for a big group dinner with everyone and had a wonderful surprise at the end of dinner. I ord
ered a chocolate cake to split with another volunteer, and it turned out to be my favorite chocolate molten cake! Yum! I do miss certain foods from home, so this was a wonderful surprise!
We're off to the clinic again tomorrow...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Molten Cake!
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5 comments:
We're so happy to hear your travels are going well~
Proud of you both!!
Also, wishing you many Molten Cakes on your 25th birthday Friday Char!!!
Keeping you in our prayers~
love, the McD's
So...I had not really been keeping up in the blog because I have been SO busy with school & sorority, but I just read every single one to make sure I knew everything going on. I am beyond jealous of the amazing trip you guys are having. El partido de futbol parecia fantastico! (I cant do accents on here but you get it). Anyways I love you both so much, keep up the good posts!
Oh and Char-Happy Birthday tomorrow!! Hope its lots of fun!
HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY CHAR! HAVE A GREAT TIME TODAY AND TONIGHT! HOW ABOUT DEREK TAKING YOU OUT TO DINNER FOR A DELICIOUS GUINEA PIG! ha ha MISS YOU! IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE HAVING THE TIME OF YOUR LIVES! Chuck, Sue and Shane
Tell your friend Xavier that I agree with him, 5 would be a good number.
Glad everything is going so well. I miss you guys lots.
Love,
Mom
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