orientation and soy ice cream

Sunday:

Once again I was woken up by roosters, 1,000 stray dogs barking and a car honking up and down the road; I found out that the car that is obnoxiously honking is selling freshly made tortillas...which are amazing. Adma made us homemade tortillas today with our breakfast and they were awesome. We also had eggs, avocado, and fresh cantaloupe juice. I swear chickens here lay different eggs; they are the best eggs I have ever tasted.

Marlin drove me to the proworld office and bunk house today so I would know how to get  there and back walking. We had orientation with the program director which was just a lot of common sense rules and some info about belize...the usual when you start some kind of program.   We were supposed to go swimming but its been raining cats and dogs here today. It doesnt rain like it does in the US....I was literally just standing outside trying to get internet service and it was fine outside and now if I were to walk outside I would be soaking wet from head to toe in less than 5 seconds. It happens so fast and you just pray it happens when you are inside!

A RN came from the san ignacio hospital to give us a brief history of their healthcare and to practice taking vitals and glucose readings. I even poked myself with  needles to draw blood, I wanted to know how hard to push...I found out. And, I had a high blood sugar reading....must be all the veggies I am eating....I told you all they are bad for you.

Tomorrow I start at the CAYO clinic which I found out is a private clinic and the doctor there is supposedly an awesome doctor with a ton of experience with a teaching personality. I also heard from the RN that since it is a private clinic that it can be very slow at times, but oh well I will make the best of what I am given to work with. Some of the other students are working in the hospital and will have the chance to possibly see births, ER work and different types of things.  I am thinking that they will have more of an observing experience and I am hoping mine will be a little more hands on. I am the only volunteer that had an past medical experience, which I am telling myself is the reason I am at this clinic...I guess we will find out.

We are also doing a public outreach program while I am here which I am really looking forward to. I am excited for a few different reasons with the first being the fact that all of us volunteers will be working together and get to spend all day together on these days. We are all at different settings 3 days a week so this will be a nice time to hang out with them. Some of them are even working the 3-11 shift so that limits going out with them at night too so these days should be good days to do group things. Like karaoke at the casino on thursday....cant wait! It should also be very interesting because we have to promote our free clinic and get the word out; the success is completely determined by us getting the word out. At the clinic we will offer free glucose screenings, education about diabetes,  blood pressure checks and education about hypertension as well. Hopefully we will see a lot of people coming in.

I just got back from dinner; tonight we had spaghetti. It was similar to spaghetti in the states but had some different spices. It was good enough to satisfy me. What I am really excited for is ice cream later; all of the volunteers are meeting later to get ice cream at CAYO twist. They sell soy ice cream which I havent had before. I will let you know how it is tomorrow! 

I am getting nervous for tomorrow and of course excited. I should have lots to fill you in on in my blog tomorrow. I am planning on going to Greedys or the bunkhouse after work to blog. Miss you all!!

Peace, Love, Belize :)

P.S. sorry all of my past blogs were posted all at once, that might have been confusing. And, now that I just read them they had tons of bad spelling and grammar...woops! To much excitement to think I guess!