Un dia en la vida...

So I´m already slacking at being a good blogger. Here´s a little update about the hospital I´ve been working at. I was originally supposed to work at the Tierra Nueva hospital in the Southern part of the city (I´m in the North). The hospital was built by an Italian priest about 20 years ago and over the years has become overcrowded as the hospitals operations expanded. The organization is in the process of building a quite large and very nice new hospital even farther in the South. The first floor is finished, so the hospital just opened for business, even though work is still being done on the upper floors. After a few days they transfered me to the newer hospital, which is great, except that it turned my 60 minute commute into a much less attractive 90 minutes (which can be much longer, depending on how many times I get lost).

Here is a typical day:

6:00-Rise and Shine

6:15-Breakfast (I´m pretty sure that my host mom hates me for making her get up so early to cook me food, but hey, that´s what she´s getting paid for, right?)

6:30-Catch the bus. In Russia, all the buses are numbered. In Ecuador, I think they have a thing against Russia and decided to spite all the atheistic communists by naming their buses after Saints instead (mine is the San Pablo 2). It´s much more confusing when you are trying to travel to an obscure hospital 15 miles away in a ciy of 3 million, but at least they showed those Ruskies comrads who´s boss.

8:00-Arrive at the hospital. I´ve been spending each day working with a different kind of doctor and helping with examinations as much as possible. Although Ecuador is still considered a 3rd world country, all of the doctors seem as well (if not better) educated as Doctors in the US so I´ve been learning alot.

13:00-Head home for lunch. Because the hospital is only partly functioning, I only work mornings which has been nice and gives me time to study spanish and nap.

19:00-Dinner

23:00-Bedtime. I know, it´s just hard to for me to process going to bed before midnight as it is for you.

It´s hard to believe that it´s already been 3 weeks since I got here. I will see you all soon enough.