As I said in my last post we were headed to mountain pine ridge on sunday. Getting there was quite a treat. Imagine the worst dirt road you have ever been on and add a ton of large rocks and hills to it plus what it would feel like to be driving 60 MPH down it in a huge van....that is what I endured for an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back. And, really we were only going about 20 mph the whole time.Lets just say no one gave me a heads up on that one. It was quite miserable, but it was worth it in the end. We first arrived at rio frio cave which was a much different cave experience than the day before; this cave was open on both side and just huge inside! It had a little beach inside of it as well. After the cave we went to Rio on pools which was a bunch of small waterfalls that turned into pools that we swam in. It was refreshing and beautiful. It happened to be a hot sunny day that day as well so we laid out on the granite rocks to dry off and catch some sun. It was so nice to relax and just take it all in. We ate lunch there while watching the beautiful waterfalls. After that we drove a few miles to big rock which is a pretty large waterfall with some pools to swim in at the bottom and ledges to cliff jump as well. This was my favorite part of the day. It was so exciting to jump of off the cliffs and to swim next to the falls. But, the rocks were SO slippery to climb up. And as clumsy as I can be...I definitely took home the award for least graceful falls; I am pretty sure my ribs are bruised. But at least the rest of the group got some entertainment out of me falling on my butt more than once. The hike up and down to the falls was also really steep and was probably the most mountain climbing I have ever done in my life. It was a good experience.
After all of that we were pretty exhausted. We got home and all went to our separate houses. I ate some dinner and hung out with ajia for a while. I went to bed pretty early last night and got some sleep.
This morning I was up at 630 to get ready to head to the clinic. I had a good breakfast and was on my way. Luckily the monsoon that took place last night was over by the time I had to walk to work. The clinic was extremely slow today; we think it was because of all the rain. I kept telling the doctor that we need to make some people sick so we would have something to do! I saw some x-rays and mammograms so the day wasn't completely boring. There was a patient that needed an IV, but for some reasons her veins were just not cooperating; I had asked a question and the lab tech thought I said I was good at IVs. He started to hand me the needle and I had to say no no no I have no idea how to do that. They really will just let you do anything here! It made me a little queasy when they were wiggling the needle all around trying to get it to stay, but I survived without fainting. On Friday I missed a vasectomy which I am totally bummed about. Hopefully tomorrow will bring some excitement! Pray for some sick people for me.... just kidding!
I am just about to go eat some dinner and then I don't know what the night will bring. I am pretty tired, so reading and sleeping sound pretty good.
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