So it’s been quite a while since I updated but that is because in-site my routines are pretty constant and relatively unexciting but enjoyable. My work week starts off with an exhausting early morning charla with different women’s groups on Monday and then house visits for several hours after. The rest of the week I do mostly school charlas, which I will have to find replacements for soon since the school year ends in October. I am hoping that the women’s groups I work with will be able to meet more frequently and I am also hoping to talk to the Doctor about forming health promoter groups again. I already brought it up, but it’s been a while and no action has happened so I’m guessing with everything else he has to do it has been forgotten.
That has been my work life. I was stuck in Xela for a few days because of mudslides about a week ago and that was frustrating but also nice because I’ve not spent much time there and there are so many cool places to visit. I am a creature of habit and did not see half of what I could have, instead sticking to the same couple of coffee shops, the Mennonite bake shop and the bookstore (where I went through as many of their Joan Didion collection as possible—while I was there I read Salvador, Run River and The Last Thing He Wanted). Melissa and I also checked out the museum in the central park, which was amusing only for the haphazard and random collection of items, ranging from vintage soda bottles to a variety of fetuses, including human.
In the last week my host sister had her birthday and in an effort to celebrate Melissa and I baked a delicious but ugly as sin German Chocolate cake. I will put up photos for the amusement of those who know how to make baked goods look pretty.
