Day 5 - Santa Ana

Today was a busy day. After breakfast (beans and tortillas and eggs) - this time I didn't try any of the pepper after I was so suprised by the pepper I added yesterday - I expected black pepper and this was definitely hot pepper. 

We had a bit of time before hillside showed up so we went down and bathed in the river. The water was a bit more murky but still felt nice. We hung out for a bit afterwards. When hillside arrived we broke into 2 groups. I went with Angela to hillside with Tricia and shana. We did 27 Pap smears there. Several ones I did looked abnormal. I'm somewhat disappointed not to get the follow up info about what they find. At the other clinic they managed to do 49 exams. Quite an accomplishment for 4 practitioners in a limited environment. Interesting the misconceptions people have. One lady who was menopausal was concerned the exam could cause her to start to have periods again. Others thought birth control would cause cervical cancer - some thought if they missed too many periods they would explode. 

We hit punta gorda on the way to our next town - Santa Ana and got some gas. It was 10.62 - about 5 per gallon of diesel fuel. 

In Santa Ana we are staying with the chairman. I've finally found a more natural place to hang my hammock and fly. It's between a tree and telephone pole :) 

The property here is beautiful. It's sort of what you'd expect in a rustic Eco lodge. There is a flush toilet with a water tank on top. There is electricity and music. The area we ate used to be a bar. The chairman used to do protocols for some Norwegian company and now has an exotic fruit tree farm. He was telling us a lot about the area and some of the people in the area. He was very well educated and was worldly. His wife made us excellent flour tortillas, fried beans, and eggs mixed with hot dog. Some of us strung out hammocks in the yard and other set them up under the veranda. 

Tomorrow we will have clinic here and then head to San Marco.