Well, we are getting closer to having our water cistern complete. Hopefully we will finish before we have to move out of the house! No really, we are getting close. On Monday evening after spending time in Paxot 2 when got home around 8pm to the sound of water running - lots of water. It was the sound of our water cistern filling up. That is a good sound! So it ran all night and finally filled up by mid-morning the next day. Sounds like a bunch of water and it kind of is which is good, especially when you are used to going without running water. So now we are just waiting for all of the other piping to be completed and the pump hooked up. Then we will be in business. For now we have water from the municipality, so we are happy.
Today our 2 teams were spread out all over the place. Sheri, Gaspar and Juan went to La Palma north of Santa Cruz in the hills - see Sheri's blog - http://www.sheriinguate.blogspot.com/. Josefina, Tomas and Manuel were 2 hours in the opposite direction with a clinic in Chuguexa which turned out to be very small; however they had a good conversation with the church to ensure they start including the community in the clinics and to begin announcing via radio. Kemmel and Mauri (new clinic all purpose assistant) were in Clinica Caris taking care of admin items and training Mauri on certain tasks that will help the clinics run smoother. Lisa was in meetings all day with the Health Department so she probably had the worst day of everyone. Nothing like sitting in meetings all day when you know you will be gone in a week.
Josefina and Tomas returned today from spending time at Clinic Ezell in Montellano assisting with a surgical week focused on GYN and General Surgery. When all is done the group will have performed between 60 to 70 surgeries. Lisa and I were not able to make it this week as she is working on finishing her assignments.
Some important dates to remember Lisa on are:
1. January 22 - we find out where Lisa will serve the next 6 months
2. Now until Jan 22 - Lisa is working on finishing her assignments including a large report detailing the health situation of the village she works in.
3. January 30 - final exam
4. February 1 - first day of new assignment
Thanks for checking in and your fervent prayers!
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