2 Months down, 4 to go

It is hard to believe the time has passed but we have finished 2 months in Guatemala City with Lisa working at Hospital Roosevelt. Today was the last day of her 2 months on the pediatric rotations and with the best news that she has passed the 2 months.



Tomorrow, Lisa starts her OB rotation for a month, still be on call every 4th night and she gets to stay on the same call schedule which works out great. For the next couple of weeks she will be working on the OB floor post-partum.



While on call, I will still head to Chichi to visit the teams there. Tomorrow, I head to Chichi early to meet with a group of agricultural experts from the University of Tennessee to see about providing some classes or workshops on fruit orchards. Apples, peaches, plums and avocados are among the different orchards in the area. We will be visiting 3 communities with them with varying levels of fruit production, Chuchipaca being one of the highest producing areas and where we also have clinic every 2 weeks. May is the start of the plum season which we always look forward to, here they taste like large cherries.



During our time here in the city we have been attending services with the brothers and sisters of the Zone 11 church of Christ and each day we go we are always overwhelmed with the outpouring of love in that church. They are a prayer warrior church and last Friday of each month to pray from 7pm until midnight and then also have a special Sunday each month when they begin at 7am. We confess that we have not been to one of those meetings as the times have not worked well with the schedule of call but still plan on doing so. One of the ladies I work with, Violeta, attends this church and she is always a joy to get to work with. She has a very positive outlook on life. Her daughter, Alejandra also works with us and is due to have a baby in May.



On other news, Tomasa, the sister of our health promoter Juan Quino got married today to Felipe from Mactzul VI. Unfortunately we were unable to be there and we are just waiting for Sheri the photographer to post her pictures on her blog - http://www.sheriinguate.blogspot.com/. Here is a picture of Tomasa for those who kind of remember her - she is in front on the right with her arms crossed.

Well we have an early morning so time to go to sleep. Good night John boy! (or in k'iche; chatworok Xuan ala!! or Xoc ak'ab Xuan ala!!)