Strange Storm Last Night

Greetings all.

Sitting outside last night, all of us, almost at the same time realized there were really strange looking clouds coming our way. We sat in awe for about ten minutes. I took the opportunity to take some pictures since they will also give everyone an idea of what it's like near my house. (I'm yet to take many pictures, don't ask me why.) Below the crazy looking clouds, please take note of the non-stop GREEN and lack of asphalt. :)

We sat staring, noting how pretty (and bizarre) the clouds looked. A brief discussion of the end of the world ensued, but I assured everyone we could rest easy until 2012. Then...I felt the first rain drop. And another. Everyone else felt it as well and all of a sudden, a crazy wind started. I felt like I had been transported to Austurias's Viento Fuerte.

We immediately took off running to bring in all the clothes before the wind sent them off to a land far far away. It was then that I noticed everyone had left poor Wendy's mother chasing the pollitos (chicks, in English, I think) into their coop, so I grabbed a broom and started helping her. Running up down, all around trying to get them in we were. While I REALLY wish I had pictures of the chaos that followed our dumbfounded admiration, these will have to suffice.

If the first four photos serve to demonstrate how beautiful it is here, the last is most certainly to demonstrate how I look after a long day...and this is a day when I DIDN'T go out with Wendy's father, glued to the back of a motorcycle winding through washed out roads and having no padding on my booty.

Enjoy!

latest news

Well...it's been a good five or six weeks since last I put anything up, so I figured it was about time.

-I've continued giving consults on my own as well as with the doctor, where I see TONS of interesting stuff. Yesterday I arrived to yet another community (on the road to Belize, La Maquina, in case you're looking at a map) where another crowd of about a hundred women were waiting with their children. It's so fast paced and we went literally non-stop for five hours. I was so hungry afterward that it didn't occur to me to ask for beans or eggs, so I almost ended up eating COW.

-This morning, I went to a different part of the clinic with the doctor I've been working with to help with gyn exams with the sex workers. (I actually didn't do anything, except learn how to do the exam without a speculum...I'm still trying to figure that one out...) The highlight was a young woman that liked my eyes and mentioned she's always wanted a child with eyes my color. This was after telling me I really should be paying to sit in on these appointments.

-Wendy's sister returned from the capital. I now live with five people, have a hundred million frequent house guests, and there is one bathroom. Oh, and two turkeys just arrived today (no, the animals, my parents are still mentally preparing to make it down here).

-I'm currently studying for my next exams in bio, chem and physics, which is exhausting. Call me a nerd, but Campbell's Biology is probably one of my favorite books out there, but it's a trip reading it in Spanish. Thank goodness for google books, since it's out there for free. Next will be chemistry and physics, which I'm not so sure about. Wish me luck the week of the 20th when I take the tests!