Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Leaving Santiago
It’s the end of our volunteer assignment, and tomorrow we will move on to other parts of Guatemala. The days melted away. I can’t believe we’ve been here for over a month. We spent the majority of our time helping the hospital get their inventory data into the database, we did do a little work [...]
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
San Pedro
We went on a retreat to the village of San Pedro. Compared to Santiago, it seemed like we were in a cosmopolitan centre. Amazing how close each of these villages are to one another, yet are so different in character, in dress and language. In San Pedro the language is also Tz’tuihuil, but after only [...]
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Overheard Today
We’re still madly inputting data. The hospital is fully open, but since it’s been semi-closed for the past few days, the lineup of people almost runs out the door. As we’re silently typing away, in the next office over, we can hear the doctors in the clinic talking to one of the patients. The patient [...]
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
A Day at the Hospital
The board decided to do a mass inventory and they’ve closed the hospitalito for three days, so that all teams can focus on documenting what supplies are on the premises. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but the hospital basically relies on donations (both medicines and equipment) that have been sent from Europe and [...]