Reflection 2

So I´ll just hit the high points. This week I´ve learned a TON of Spanish, since I´ve had to function in Spanish about 75% of the time. Picking up a lot of words has been the best thing about the experience so far. I´ve been really bored at my morning volunteering at a ¨Puesto De Salud¨north of Antigua in a community calleed Pastores. It is basically a 4-room, 1-nurse, ill-equipped clinic in an economically depressed part of an economically depressed nation. So, lots of paracitismo y infecciones. I have gotten to give a few vacunas (vaccinations) and take out a few stitches (quitar puntas) which have been cool experiences I couldn´t have had in the States without a little training.
Two days ago, a classmate Lee and I moved to another house, and it has turned out to be a good decision. The family we live with now is really cool and talks to us all the time. I am finding I love Guatemalan food, which is basically tortillas or pan (bread) with everything. However, I´m still scared of the bathroom at the house. Fact: the toilet bowl has not been clean for several generations. On that note, lots of classmates have been coming down with diarrhea and other mild sicknesses this week, but I´m still holding out. I´m feeling like I might be getting sick now, so I´m going to take it easy tonight and finish reading Fight Club. And study if I feel so inclined.
Yeah, the reality is a lot less exciting than the fiction. So I think I´ll go back to fictionalizing for a while... ¡Feliz dia a todos!