Clinic in the Mountains

Well, the medical brigade from Kent´s church in Indiana also arrived on Sunday, and began their brigade up in the mountains at a hacienda in a place called San Juan. Monday I was at the school with Rachel, but I went up on Tuesday morning...I was assigned to translate for Nurse Julie...we saw many patients, most of whom suffered from headaches, stomachaches, diarrhea, etc...all caused by parasites... it was pretty interesting, since it was my first time to actually be working with patients...We were through seeing patients at about 3:30, so everyone left to return home except me, Bethany, Nathan, Samantha, Rebekah, and Kent...we decided to spend the night at the hacienda...I was previously told that we would get to sleep on hammocks, but there was only one hammock and it was pretty cold outside, even for me, so we set up army cots and slept on those. At about 4:30 our dinner was ready - eggs, beans, tortillas, and some sort of weird cheese, which none of us except Kent ate, and he paid for it at about 4 AM...inside the house it was pretty nice, except none of the inside walls went all the way up, eliminating all forms of privacy - mainly you could hear everything that went on inside the bathroom...I think that we all bonded a little that night...we just stayed up talking and playing cards, like a real campout, except we were inside and had cots and running water and an electricity generator...Wednesday I again translated for nurse Julie, and we saw more of the same thing...he wasn´t our patient, but there was a man who had a really large tumor growing on the side of his neck, sadly we couldn´t do anything for him, but a surgical team is coming in August and hopefully they will be able to help him..We came back down last night...it was a bit of an adventure - the intern mobile, called la tortuga blanca, died....so Leonardo had to drive us back in some other car....Today I went back to school and Milson´s house, it was so much fun!! They let the kids out of school early because they ran out of water...This weekend we are either travelling to the ruins at Copan or maybe San Salvador, El Salvador...