Wednesday! Today we were in a small community called Quebrada Honda, which means¨"deep creek." We set up in the school so the classrooms we occupied moved their desks outside and had class there. They gave out 250 numbers and we ended up seeing about 280 people. They triaged the people so those with the worst vision problems were seen first. Most of them were quite elderly and almost all of them had cataracts. Wear your sun glasses, dear readers.
We had a great lunch of beef stew and rice and we were offered Creamas for the first time! They were so popular and were the first to go. Speaking of going, we were still faced with the prospect of outhouses when we arrived but when Georgia ventured out and lost her breakfast trying to use one of the outhouses, Fidelina said we could go down the road to the health clinic and use their indoor toilet. Thanks, Georgia!
The auto-refractor was a good little worker today. Sometimes the amount of muscle tension required to keep it steady translates into a sore neck at night. Next trip, we are definitely bringing a team massage therapist. Mary O? Anyone interested? See Mary Ann or Beth to apply. Demonstration of ability required.
As I am typing this, there is no electricity. I am using Word and the laptop battery and will copy this into the blog once we are up and running again. We have had at least three power outages since we have been here. The most significant one was last night when the power went off at 3:00 am. We were getting critically close to leaving and I was still holding off on showering since I knew without power we would be back to freezing cold water. Miraculously, the lights came on an hour before we left so there was time to save the people from the horror that is my hair when I don't wash it in the morning. We asked Rafael about how often the power goes out and he said "According to the government, there are no power outages."
OK! Power is back on. I think part of the problem is all this wind. We have not had any rain today but there sure has been a brisk breeze a blowin´. I think I will not press my luck and will end this here. Plus, as Beth mentioned, it is getting close to 9:00 which sounds like bedtime to me.
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