After nearly inflicting 3rd degree burns on myself from the hostel shower because apparently only the hot water faucet worked not the cold, and you had to do a dance to even get water to come out, we finally got on the bus to Huancayo, which was an awesome comfortable bus! About 8 hours later we made it to Huancayo, with only really one girl in our group getting altitude sickness on the way...just so happens that she was sitting behind me and we got the pleasure of getting vomit on us...lovely...But the scenary was awesome, beautiful mountains and rivers, but we passed through some horrible slums and poverty on the way, especially outside of Lima for a while...wow living in Peru in the mountains of the central highlands is very primitive and very rugged...We were met by our very sweet host mom, Elena, and our host home is neat. We are joined to like 4 other houses with other families and lots of dogs and some roosters! haha Although Huancayo is a "city" and there are about 300,000 people who live here it is very rugged and impoverished living. Today we went to the hospital for the poor that we will do rounds in every morning. Totally different than hospitals in the US. It was very very primitive, no elevators, saw people being carried up stairs on old timey stretchers to surgery. It is ALL espanol!! All women and all men no matter what they have are kept in like one room for each gender, sanitation not so much a concern! I talked to some Peruvian med students who will do rounds with. We are split into groups of two, and I am in surgery for the first two weeks, then internal medicine the next two. Really only me and one other girl speak Spanish out of all 9 of us, so it has been interesting, everyone has been depending on me to understand and translate, which is hard but kinda cool! After the hospital, we went to Rosario Orphanage to give a lesson on drug addictions which we had to come up with ourselves last minute last night and on the bus ride...en espanol! haha a quick welcome i had to translate all of our ideas into a lesson in Spanish, but it surprising went well and we played a fun game of charades with the kids that they loved! We go back this afternoon to give drug addiction lessons to moms at the orphanage and another group of kids...my group is awesome, we all get along really well and are having a good time!