THursday, clinic day! woo! today was my first day working in the clinic. It was actually really fun. I had a great time talking to the patients.
By the way the people here are a lot like the people of micronesia mom and dad. The houses are formatted the same way, but built much better. They are elevated off the ground on cement filled 6 inch pipes, made of wood, and not much bigger than the houses in micronesia. The are roofed with what they call Zinc. The villagers seem to live in a very communistic society. There is a village orchard where they grow beans and rice. It is approximately 20 kilometers away they told us, and the women, men, and children (regardless of age) carry about 40 lbs of beans and or rice strapped on backpacks connected to their heads. THere doesn't seem to be a lot of emphasis on education or technology, at least from my perspective.
They have cows, chickens, horses, pigs and dogs running around, and occasionally they have a village feast with them (or so i have been told, i have not seen one yet. However the horses are not ridden or used as beasts of burden because "only the Spaniards use animals, the Moskito use only their own strength. The town has a MENSA clinic and a malaria nurse. The government is a people elected Judge that makes the decisions in the community meetings. It is interesting here. The people have no wish to change their life status, but they are very hard working and good people.
Anyways at the clinic it was really fun working in the pharmacy. We would get the perscriptions from the doctors/nurses/students and fill them and explain them to the villagers, including how to take them. A looooot of people here only speak Miskito, which makes it very interesting to try to communicate them. Matt said something funny (he wasnt with me this time, but following Jeff) he said he was thinking to himself when a patient spoke spanish he was like "whew!" and then he thought "woah! what am i thinking? i am happy when they speak spanish!" usually it would be if they spoke english, but speaking spanish meant there is a hope to be able to communicate with them.
The name of this town was ?>>>DF (that is a blank to be filled in later when i remember the name)
THe construction project is going well, we now have 6 bathrooms for 20 people! soon we will have enough smelly bathrooms for us all to have personal bathrooms! lol sometimes i wonder about the planning of the funds for this place. One would think they would finish building the main building before building so many unnecessary buildings would be necessary on a tight budget but o well!
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