The activity of my days has slowed down a bit. My daily rountine is to traverse across Neuvo Amazonia stopping at different peoples houses to visit with them and teach them about nutrition and hygiene. I have a pretty good are ato cover so I tend to walk at a pretty fast pace. Everyone down here thinks I am so funny for walking fast with big strides.
I feel as if I am pretty acoustombed to Peruvian life. Where we are living right now at km 8 there is no running wáter. This means that we have to buy all of our wáter for cooking, drinking, showering, washing clothes, etc. It seems like such a silly thing to spend money on, but it is definietly a necissity. I was overjoyed the other day when it started raining super hard. I quickly grabbed all the buckets and contianers that we had and set them all out to collect free wáter. Another great thing about life down here is that giant papayas can be bought for the equivalent of 30 US cents. Papaya season is about 2 weeks away and I am oh so excited. Another reason I think I am becoming Peruvian is that the other night our group decided to taste a bit of American cultura and eat supper at a Pizzaria. We delightfully enjoyed our pizza until the bill game and we realized that each slice of pizza came out to about $1 US. Normally this would not be considered a ridiculous Price, but for here that is super duper expensive. That is almost a whole days worth of food (and I had 3 slices - no food for 3 whole days…aaahhh). One other funny thing that has been happening to me over the past few days is running into random tables in the dark. You see, where we are living now there is no electicity. The sun goes down soon after 6 leaving lots of time to wander through darkness and run into things. Me, being to cheap to use my flashlight batteries and preferring the adventure of exploring in the darkness, have found myself colliding into random tables and chairs that were not there earlier. My legs have random bruises to remind me of my clumsiness. Funny how my I am still just as clumsy even here in a different hemisphere.

This is a picture from clinic a few weeks ago. Each morning we would arrive to see at least this many people lined up outside, waiting for medical attention. Each day we would help about 150 patients - busy, busy times, but oh so fun.

This picture is from a few weeks ago, but here is Lauren and I in our little triage rooms during clinic - the blue sheet is our dividing wall between the rooms. (if you look closely you will see that I have scooby-do scrubs on...isn´t that exciting?)

A few of us walking out to the main road to catch a taxi.

(I am in the blue with the green pack)

Melanie, Me, Lauren, Josh and Brittany.

(The nurse squad with one of our dental friends)

Our team of 5 in our house at Km 8

(Left to Right: Lauren, Brittany, Matt, Me and Melanie)

Only in Peru...

-Allow at least 3 times as much time as it should take to get anywhere or do anything.
-Speak Castellano and not Spanish (Spanish is spoken in Spain)
-Eat fruit that resmebles forg eggs, cacoons and other typically non-edible ítems
-Lick your plate after every meal to coserve wáter when doing dishes
-Burn all your garbage in a hole behind your house
-Find glowey bugs (fireflies) that turn off when you try to catch them. (In all my quests of catching glowey bugs I have never suceded. I will think that I have one only to find that he magically has dissappeared) However the battle is not yeto ver between me and the glowey bugs
-Find lemons the size of something that could only have been grown in Texas.
-East rice all the time
-Cook rice with a plastic bag in the pot (this actually makes the rice a lot more delicious, I will teach anyone that desires to know the secret to cooking rice in the Peruvian fashion)
-Tie a trailer to the bumper of the truck because there is no hitch
-Find people with typewriters on street corners to type letters for the general public
- Do you find a family of 5 squishing onto a motorbike to go to school each day