Such Different Systems

Yesterday in the hospital, I shadowed in ob/maternity, which was really interesting. the thing about it is that the people have no privacy whatsoever, and there are multiple patients in the room at the same time. at one point, one of the nurses took out his camera phone and started taking a video while a pregnant woman was on the table. a lot of the women come in to get prescriptions for condoms because its taboo here to use them unless you have an rx from a doctor. there were lots of depo provera shots, some family planning appointments, and pregnancy checkups. There was a 16 year old girl I had seen the previous day in the general consultation who had a severe infection and had refused treatment. We went to see her in the maternity ward - she had had her baby overnight and was really sick and would have died without treatment, but still refused it. she also didnt understand much of what was going on because she only speaks Quechua. The nurses started a fund to chip in for her meds so that they can treat her and her baby.
In the afternoon, we went to the outside market to get produce. I got a bunch of guanadillas, this really yummy fruit with goopy seeds. it´s really hard to eat because its so goopy, you have to kind of suck it out of the peel, but they are really good. weird, they are playing american music at the cafe im at. anyway.. i got 8 of theçose fruits the size of oranges for a dollar, and then a pineapple for 10cents. potatoes and rolls of bread are about 3 cents each, its quite nice. while we were driving to the market, we drove past two of the kids that go to the kids program i work at, which was really random because its completely the other side of town from where they live. the car broke down when we were driving and spit out lots of smog but neto, one of the volunteer coordinators who we live with, used a wrench and managed to fix it pretty quickly.
Today, went to the med center and followed around the psychologist, which was really interesting. completelyyy different system than in the US, as with everything else. people don´t make appts for anything, they just come in whenever they want to. no one came in for her today even though it´s usually busy, but she was giving a lecture on burn out syndrome to the nurses, so i sat in on that and helped her use the computer for her power point because she had no clue how. talked to a bunch of the nurses and had a good spanish speaking day, understood most of what was going on. it all depends on who is talking, i think. i´m going to take spanish lessons a few hours a week to brush up on my conjugations, etc. í´m starting tonight.
Going out to teach the kids in a little bit. I think I´ll take the girls today, they are really stubborn and think English is too hard so don´t make an effort to learn it, so I´ll give that a go and hopefully be able to get somewhere with them. We´re reviewing to be and teaching them family words today.
I just washed Bobby, the dog we live with, who was completely smelly and disgusting. Used my shampoo because of course there isnt any dog shampoo. Not great for him but oh well, its better than nothing. And then as soon as I let him out of the tub, he rolled around in the mud. Lovely. He´s dirty again, but probably a little bit less smelly than he was, at least.
Hmm, I had other things I was going to say, but I dont remember what anymore. So that´s all for now.