2/25/11
jana finally got the other computer to work in the 'library,' so we are actually both on the computer right now crazy! appearantly all we had to do was press 'accpetar' when it asked for a password. who knew? we have had another busy two days. yesterday we went to the montessori school and screened kids for lice and whatnot. we saw 30 some kids, and none of them had lice! woo. but then about 45 minutes after we were done, six more randomly showed up, and 4 of them had lice. naturally. and they started playing everywhere and messing with everything, so that should be good. we saw one girl that has some sort of syndrome, undiagnosed. jana looked it up and thinks she has an idea, but we are going to see her again next week and take a better look. maybe take her for a chest xray, which apparently only costs 15 soles, which is about 6 US dollars. not bad at all. another weird thing, you don`t need a prescription for anything here. not used to that...you just walk into the pharmacy, tell them what you need, antibiotics, narcotics, blood pressure meds, and they give it to you. muy interesante.
today we went to the shantiest part of the shantytown. it`s called san genaro 2 (it`s up the hill from san genaro, which is where we have been working). we saw adults and kids in a chapel there. it was very hot and dusty. we treated one woman for pneumonia, one with scabies, and saw to all the other random complaints people had. mostly told them to take ibuprofen. works like a charm.
it`s interesting talking to javier about the problems here. he is very focused on education, which is a major part of what we are doing. he says that if you build something, someone can take that from you. but if you learn something, that cannot be taken away. it`s a very good point.
i`m pretty much tired all the time, actually took a nap yesterday afternoon. yesterday we had 'mexican' food, which was a big taco with very pink pork, chicken, fried egg, white sauce something, green sauce something else, and black beans. yummy. this evening we are going to walk to barranco, the section of the city to our north and get some food and walk around. there`s a park-type area and vendors and other things. FRIDAY!! we get two days off, very excited. but we have a lot of homework to do, so we can`t get too crazy. going to try to upload some pics to facebook. wish me luck.
jana finally got the other computer to work in the 'library,' so we are actually both on the computer right now crazy! appearantly all we had to do was press 'accpetar' when it asked for a password. who knew? we have had another busy two days. yesterday we went to the montessori school and screened kids for lice and whatnot. we saw 30 some kids, and none of them had lice! woo. but then about 45 minutes after we were done, six more randomly showed up, and 4 of them had lice. naturally. and they started playing everywhere and messing with everything, so that should be good. we saw one girl that has some sort of syndrome, undiagnosed. jana looked it up and thinks she has an idea, but we are going to see her again next week and take a better look. maybe take her for a chest xray, which apparently only costs 15 soles, which is about 6 US dollars. not bad at all. another weird thing, you don`t need a prescription for anything here. not used to that...you just walk into the pharmacy, tell them what you need, antibiotics, narcotics, blood pressure meds, and they give it to you. muy interesante.
today we went to the shantiest part of the shantytown. it`s called san genaro 2 (it`s up the hill from san genaro, which is where we have been working). we saw adults and kids in a chapel there. it was very hot and dusty. we treated one woman for pneumonia, one with scabies, and saw to all the other random complaints people had. mostly told them to take ibuprofen. works like a charm.
it`s interesting talking to javier about the problems here. he is very focused on education, which is a major part of what we are doing. he says that if you build something, someone can take that from you. but if you learn something, that cannot be taken away. it`s a very good point.
i`m pretty much tired all the time, actually took a nap yesterday afternoon. yesterday we had 'mexican' food, which was a big taco with very pink pork, chicken, fried egg, white sauce something, green sauce something else, and black beans. yummy. this evening we are going to walk to barranco, the section of the city to our north and get some food and walk around. there`s a park-type area and vendors and other things. FRIDAY!! we get two days off, very excited. but we have a lot of homework to do, so we can`t get too crazy. going to try to upload some pics to facebook. wish me luck.
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