The consequences of not paying the electricity bill

Evidently our land owner didn't pay the electricity bill. The consequence is that the electric company cut the electric wires to the house.... welcome to Honduras. Oh well. I can survive with candles. The only downer is that the light bulb that warms our shower water (ie. our Honduran water heater) runs on electricity, as well as the water pump that pumps water up to the cistern on the roof and down to us. So we have no water. Oh well. Meredith asked one of the Mission lazarus workers to reattach it today. So hopefully we'll have electricity tonight.

Mountain Medicine

So my current "job" is to go with the medical team each day. Tuesday we're at the coast in Sudeno. The rest of the days were in the mountains in Las Pitas. The Honduran doctor, Dr. Juliette, is with us Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The rest of the days its just Lexi (the Honduran nurse), Aliro (our Honduran driver), the local preacher and local workers depending on the location. When Dr. Juliette is with us I'm going to attempt health education to the people. When she's not I help see patients. My spanish is improving rapidly--i can understand "mountain" spanish alot better (I'm not sure if they just don't enunciate as well or what. Meredith (one of my American roommates who's been helping run this place for over a year) says its cuz they don't have teeth.)

Hope all is well.

Dios le bendiga!

The Walk and the Wait

I went with the medical team yesterday to Las Pitas, which consists of a Honduran doctor, a Honduran nurse and a Honduran driver. Along the way we picked up the Honduran preacher and song leader for the village we were going to.
In the states there always seem to be some patients who are impatient, and who complain that they had to wait in the clinic for an hour to see the doctor or in the ER for 8+ hours. In Las Pitas many of the patients had walked 2-4 hours up a steep hill to arrive 1-2 hours for the team to arrive, and then continued to wait until their turn without complaining.

Rainy Season

Evidently rainy season has just begun here in Honduras. Normally it runs from May through September, but ended in August last year so its been real dry recently (so I'm told by Meredith one of the workers/directors here at Mission Lazarus)...So far it's rained three of the three days I've been here.