Friday, February 28, 2014

Day 6 - Santa Ana to San Marco.

Last night was a bit clammy in my hammock. There were several howler monkeys that seemed to have messed up sleep wake cycles / they howled all night. Sorta sounds like a bad horror film. 

Felt a little blah this morning. Randy and Jono stopes by and grabbed our vehicles in exchange for 15 passenger van. 
We had flap jacks for breakfast breakfast. Think sorta like funnel cakes. I added some sugar for good measure. 

Couldn't quite stomach the beans and chicken. 
Next we headed to the health clinic. This clinic was a bit more well stocked with a pharmacy and several different rooms. There were many protocols for disease treatment that seemed similar to what we see in the states. 

Very few people (4) turned up for Pap smears. We headed out a bit earlier and stopped at a cacao farm - delicious chocolate. We then headed to San Marco eating out to go burritos in the car. 

At San Marco we stayed with our interpreter - yucinias - family. We bathed, swam and washed clothes by the creek. There were tons of minnows they seemed to be attracted to the soap and kept nipping at us. 
We did a health presentation which was chaotic at best. All the school children kept trying to peer in the windows and were very disrespectful. They propositioned one of our group members and made crude comments. Despite multiple attempts to ask them nicely to leave they wouldn't. Afterwards a bit more time by the creeks improved our moods a bit. 
We had tortillas, Cajune cabbage, potatoes, egg/hotdog mixture for dinner. 
Afterward yucinia and her dad sang several songs with guitar music. It was nice. 
The bathroom was interesting. You had to walk through the bull pasture, dodging manure to get there. It was a pit Latrine with a wooden seat. 
Before bed - like 7pm- we went to visit her grandparents. One of her cousins was there and was very pregnant - with contractions every 20 min or so. I advised she should probably go to the hospital :)

Safely in my hammock here. Time for bed. We'll see what tomorrow holds. Plan is for clinic with hillside at 830. Followed by traveling to corazon for a presentation. 



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