Post Nap- The World is Looking Brighter

After Holly and I had a nice freak out over our BEAUTIFUL room, we took naps. Waking up after only three hours was rough, but I felt like a new woman. We skipped lunch to sleep, yes we are college students. So we scrounged through our luggage to have a lovely lunch of a granola bars and applesauce, YUM. The group met downstairs to go to a service and meet our translators. The service was in a concrete building connected to other businesses that must have been used as a store or something at one point. It didn't have shelves, it was just a larger empty kind of space filled with plastic chairs and a band. There was lots of praying and singing. My translators name is Jimmy and he speaks very well for an Amazonian native! We took these motorcycle rickshaws there, which was very fun! They drive like lunatics, so I just ended up holding my breath until it was over. (pics to follow- they take forever to upload)

We went to dinner down the road at a chicken place. We were served coke, a half a chicken, coleslaw, and fries. Literally I'm serious HALF OF A CHICKEN off a spit. It was really good, but I had already resolved against the coleslaw.. cabbage = diseases. So I ate chicken and fries, just like a good ole American. After dinner we walked across the street to a square full of a band, toy, jewelry, and magazine peddlers. There were at least 300 people there, it was amazing. All the children with their toys playing in the fountain. You can see it in the picture from above, it's the park our window faces. We stopped to look at some bracelets, next to them were some wire bug ornaments with gems encrusted in them. As I was squatting to look, the merchant held out a HUGE black beetle. I thought it was fake, and immediately squealed anyways. Then he held it out and put it on Holly, that's when it started to move and she squealed too. By the end of it all the nursing girls came around to see, and we were drawing our own Peruvian crowd, which made me nervous. I bought a very cute bracelet for 8 sol, which is about 3$. It goes with everything (this is of course of monumental importance). The vendor was very nice, but I'm sure he was just loving all the people we were drawing over. I decided it was time to go before we all got mugged.

We will be getting up tomorrow to go to our first medical clinic! I'm so thrilled and excited! Be ready for pictures of me in scrubs and hiking boots. I will post again after that day, I hope I have many stories and will make a difference in someone's life.