Internet was down for a few days so I wasn't able to write!
After we took the tour of the mansion we headed over to the hospital to go to a party that was being put on for friendship day. They party was supposed to start at 11:00 A.M. but everyone (except for us and the interns who were cooking the meat) showed up around 12:30. It was a BBQ and the food was AMAZING!! The pastor from the hospital came and came a little sermon and had us sing a song in spanish about 10 times. Then we gave/received our gifts to/from our secret people and ate the amazing food. It was a lot of fun :). At around 5 we went to the P.T.'s church and sang a few songs in english for them. After that we went to the director of the hospital's church because they were having a special service for friendship day. The service was supposed to start at 5:00 but didn't end up actually starting until 6:30!! It was a good service though, and everyone there was extremely welcoming! We got back to the house around 9:00, and decided to watch Step Up One, which I recommend to all of you :)
Sunday was my birthday! We decided not to go to church, because we had gone to a service the night before, so we just lay outside in the front yard reading for most of the morning. Then we headed into town to go to the grocery store IC Norte, which for all who know me is great because I LOVE grocery shopping :). Afterwards Joy, Katie and I went out for Ice cream, and then to get coffee. We had egg burritos for dinner, my choosing :), and had an AMAZING chocolate cookie cake!! It was a very good day.
On Monday I went to CBA with Katie and shadowed Dr. Mancilla the traumatologist. In the afternoon we had spanish lessons with Audriana.
On Tuesday I got to watch two surgeries at our hospital. I got to see a Clavicle repair and a hysterectomy. The clavicle repair started late because no one told the anesthesiologist that it was taking place. The man had fallen from the second story of a building because he was drunk. The hysterectomy was really interesting to watch also. The uterus had calcified, which is apparently pretty rare, and once the surgeon had noticed this she turned to stephan and said "Saca un foto!" He naturally gave her a blank stare because he didn't have a camera, so she turned to one of the nurses and told her to. The nurse ended up using the surgeons cell phone to take a picture!! It was crazy!!! She was using her bloody glove to show the nurse how to take the picture on the phone... Something like that would NEVER fly in the states!
Have to go to church, will write more later :)
Hasta Luego!
On Sunday it was my birthday!
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