La Capio Charlas

Today, we enjoyed the company of many women from La Carpio.  My group charla (presentation) was over first aid.  Everyone got a first aid kit that we assembled from the donations.

First day of school

We toured the hospital and La Carpio today. The hospitals are very different than in the states.  After lunch, we went to the school to learn Spanish.  I'm hoping to learn fast since there is only 1 other student with me in class!  This was the view from school today.

Charla

Today Amy and I took a dance class at school! It was fun, we learned some new salsa moves. Tomorrow is our first charla wish us well! We are handing out over 30 first aid kits with thermometers which  are much needed where we are going.

Montezuma sunrise

Montezuma weekend

This weekend the group went to montezuma! Such a fun town with lots of bed and breakfast places! We are staying in a hostile/bed and breakfast called Liz en el Cielo. It is really neat it has fun hammocks and tons of stuff to do in town! Really neat shops too! I got some gifts for my family! We spent Saturday hiking and playing in the waterfalls and today I went to the beach and watched 

the World Cup game in a beach side resurant!!! How fun :) Back to Spanish classes on Monday! 

Spanish class

At the Spanish school Amy and I are learning about body parts and medical terms. We played a game today that was funny! Amy a funny picture and she had to use her new Spanish vocab to tell me what to draw; I had to listen and pick out the vocab to draw the picture! Looks like we are pretty good huh!?! Lol

Every day we have la fruitas, pan y cafe! 

San Rafael

Today we went to San Rafael by public bus. The church there was so pretty! We have one in our town of San Isidro but I haven't been inside it yet. So in San Rafael we baught pan y cafe ( bread and coffee) which we took to the men's rehab center (drugs and alcohol). Once there we ate with them and talked in small groups to get to know them. Oh wow they were so nice and I told them I could only understand a little Spanish but I was listening and picking up words!!! My new friend was very patient and he helped me pronounce things and talked with me in simple Spanish asking about mi famila and mi casa. It was good to use the vocab I do know! Fun! They wrote down preguntas medical (questions) for us to answer next week. Then after Spanish class Amy  and I walked home in the rain, and I mean RAIN lol! The bad thing about this altitude is that clothes take a few days to dry out :( oh well it was fun!