4.18.2013

Roatan - Day 19

This morning J and I worked completely on our own to do women’s health exams.  Yep, we did it all.  We didn’t have all the fancy equipment we are used to in the States so it was a bit challenging.  We made do.  And glad we are done!  Hope they don’t rope us into another day of that…

We tutored the kiddos again this afternoon, just J, M and I.  I worked with Esmerelda, who after reading a story out loud about sharks, adamantly refused that sharks lay eggs.  With my knowledge of ocean life, I could hardly refute that.  I had to stick with the book, which said they do.  Can anyone confirm this?  Apparently she took a liking to me (despite my instance that shark lay eggs) and wrote my name out and decorated it all fancy on a piece of paper.  Then when she told me she didn’t speak any Spanish (she was pulling my leg, of course), was extremely shocked to hear me spout off multiple questions in Spanish trying to get her to answer them.

The school bus then dropped J and I off in West End where we lounged on our favorite dock (I can’t believe J brought a change of clothes and didn’t even tell me!  Mostly I was jealous since I was still in my scrubs).  Just as we were getting ready to head in for some dinner, two European boys joined us on the dock so we chatted with them for a bit.  One was from Madrid (oh how I miss that accent!) and the other from Germany.  They were nice enough.

For dinner we had lionfish tacos and a fresh mango smoothie (he cut it up right before our very eyes), my dream come true.  And lunch was a baleada and mango.  LOVE the food here!  [Side note: at dinner a cat put her mangy paw on my lap and almost jumped up to join me in feasting on my fish tacos.  J is the one who loves the animals here, yet they keep coming to me…]

1 comment:

Jessica said...

It's a fact animals can sense your dislike and go to you, happens to my dad all the time :)