The hospital this morning was kind of boring because the men´s surgery´s rounds went really fast and then we just went up to internal medicine, which is what we start in next week and had to wait forever just for a doctor to even show up, so we didn´t do much. It´s crazy how kind of unorganized everything is here, especially for like the med students which we go around with some, they are always just waiting for a doctor to follow too. However, considering the few resources they have to work with at this hospital, the doctors all seem very smart and seem to do the best job they can with what they have to work with. Just a more rugged, basic old fashioned style of medicine.

After Daniel Carrion, we went to EsSalud the insurance hospital and me and three other girls went to the Psychiatric ward today and I taught yoga to the Psych patients! So hilarious/challenging! I´ve never really taught yoga before, much less all in Spanish, much less to a bunch of Psych patients so it was quite entertaining, but we had so much fun and so did they! Especially the younger girls loved it, but even like middle aged men were trying to do it with us..hahaha Clare got some good pics of this. I LOVED the psych ward, they were all so so sweet (very drugged up as well). There were 3 younger girls a little younger than us, 2 of which have schitzophrenia and one 18 year old girl who I talked to a lot who is recovering from anorexia and bulemia. She has been there a month and is planning to leave within the next few weeks and return to the university. I asked her about how she felt and if she felt like she was better after her stay and she said oh yes and was very positive about it. It was really interesting though because supposedly all these girls had struggled with depression too and they were soooo complimentary of us telling us how beautiful we are and the one with eating disorders kept complimenting my body, which is sad because when we would try to compliment them they were like oh no we are not pretty...There were also some men there for I´m not really sure what, some addictions, a couple schitzophrenics. One old man was soo sweet and just crazy! He kept talking to me all about America, how many stars and stripes we have on our flag and then told me all these elaborate stories about his brother who is an engineer in Italy, Africa, Peru, and Europe...He said he is not there because he is sick, but just because he works in the sciences and his mind needed a ¨break¨...haha he was so funny. I really hope I get to go back and work with them again because I just loved them all! I also talked to Elena about maybe doing yoga at this home she goes to some for formerly abused mothers and children, which I think would be a lot of fun and good for them. This afternoon we are going to the HIV shelter to give a lesson mainly to the moms on healthy communication and then we are going shopping for materials for the school we visited last week to take tomorrow and some soccer balls. The school has some sort of festival tomorrow which they invited us to, so we will be there from 11 for the rest of the day. In the morning we are going to a new school to give the same lessons on washing hands, brushing teeth and give fluoride treatments and toothbrushes. Tonight is Clare, my roommate from Canada´s, last night here! :( So we are going out salsa dancing tonight!