Lima, Peru

Let´s talk about differences
July 4, 2008 - Lima, Peru
Let´s start with the differences in language, and by that I don´t just mean that they speak spanish and we speak english...there are some minor differences in their spanish here than what I´ve learned up until now to say ´´here´´ they use ´´aca´´ whereas I use ´´aqui´´, same for ´´there´´ ´´alla´´ vs ´´alli´´ also they...
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Working in the hospital. Sort of.
July 1, 2008 - Lima, Peru
1) Sorry for not updating recently; my last entry was deleted two sentences before the end and I was too bummed about it to retype it. Fortunately for you all, that means that this version will be shorter! 2) In my last entry I noted that I ate some Picarones from a vendor in Lima. I was wrong; they made me extremely sick. Jenny asked what I...
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Like Sands Through the Hourglass
June 28, 2008 - Lima, Peru
So I realize I haven´t said much about what I´m actually doing with my volunteering time here so... I´m working in a medical center in the triage/nursing area.  It´s more or less nothing, at the beginning the nurse was letting me weigh people and take their blood pressure although she did recheck everything I did she finally trusted me...
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More of the hospital and Central Lima
June 26, 2008 - Lima, Peru
  First: Thanks everyone for the comments and e-mails! I really enjoy hearing from you all, mostly because I miss you, but I also like to see your interpretation of this picture I'm trying to paint of my experience. Second: This is very long.  Feel free to skim a lot of it.  My main work at the hospital is detailed in the next entry.   I...
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Tidbits
June 24, 2008 - Lima, Peru
  This morning I went to Chorrillo to have an "orientation" at the hospital I'll be volunteering at.  Our schedule says that we get two days for orientation but I think I'm starting tomorrow.  The orientation was hardly one.  Misael picked me up and showed me which bus to take (although after 15 minutes of arguing with a doctor there, it was...
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