Free.Content.Adventurous.: Brush your teeth...ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch

Sunday, July 8: Attended church in La Legua (a local town where we go for Sunday masses) followed by a lazy Sunday

Monday, July 9: I went to the nursing home in morning where Haley and I cut gauze for ~2 hours. Boring! We went on six home visits in the afternoon.

2 x 2 gauze pads

Tuesday, July10: I had my teaching project in the morning at the parish school. My topic was oral hygiene so I taught a group of 3rd graders about proper dental care. I went on home visits with Ashley and Jacki in the afternoon. A few of the nurses in my group decided that we would like to host our own Peruvian family so we informed the parish nurses of this and we were paired with families very quickly! I met my family after mass tonight! Jose (31), Roxana (23), Nayeli (9), Camela (7), Jose (4) are so sweet. Hosting a family is a minimum commitment of $300/year and it's nearly impossible not to make such a commitment after working with these loving, gracious, thankful, faithful Peruvians for almost three weeks now. Hopefully I'll be back to visit them in the future!

Our lovely posters

Cepillate los dientes!

One of the houses we went to for a home visit had a pretty front lawn!

My Peruvian family :)

Wednesday, July 11: This morning at the hospital I got to spend time in the immunization room where I stuck numerous patients. It was awesome--IVs, IM injections, and nebulizers were administered. The staff in the immunization room consisted of two Peruvian nursing students who were great about letting us to practice on them, each other, and their patients. For lunch the parish hosted a picnic for the families and their American sponsors. My afternoon in the pro-life clinic involved fundal checks, holding babies, ultrasounds, and natural family planning counseling. After dinner we attended a fiesta which turned out to be even better than the other fiestas we've been to. Happy 21st Birthday, Lisa!