All anyone is talking about today is the 7.6 earthquake that happened early this afternoon on the border of my state (Oaxaca) and Guerrero. In the Puerto area, we only felt something more like a tremor. I was in the health clinic in Santa Maria Colotepec (about 30 mins outside of Puerto) when it happened, and we had to evacuate the building after the room shook. I think the phone lines might have been down (or flooded) for a bit, but everyone here is ok!
Not to be overshadowed, my day today at the clinic was amazing. I learned how to take someone's blood pressure, and how and where (upper left quadrant so as to avoid the sciatic nerve) to actually administer a shot in someone's bum (I really hope they don't ask me to actually do one). Even cooler, I got to find a fetal heart beat in a pregnant woman, and I now know all the signs of problems with a pregnancy, and how to calculate a Probable Date of Birth given the start of the women's last menstrual cycle. Tomorrow we are doing dog vaccines at the clinic! I hope I get to do a couple of those actually.
To top it all off, I just finished playing a game of Spanish Pictionary with Maria Paz (the 5 year old that lives in my house). She was a worthy opponent, if that tells you anything of my Pictionary skills.
Stefanie your really inspiring me, I love what you are doing it warms my soul. I look up to you,you have an amazing spirit and soul.. My favorite thing in the whole world to study is medical anthropology and your pretty much living my dream, oh and you look amazing by the way
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