Ice cold shower when you are sick with a bad cold in the cold weather=miserable!! Of course tonight would be the night when our shower is not the slightest bit warm...burrr. Today was a good day besides the fact that I was even more sick. At the hospital this morning I got to follow Dr. Jumpo who is by far the nicest doctor at the hospital and speaks some English, so we learned a lot this morning. We were in women's internal medicine ward, which was a lot of cardiac patients and mostly pulmonary, like pneumonia. There was one 96 year old woman there who had an MI which caused a lot of brain damage, so she couldn't talk or eat or anything. The saddest thing I have seen thus far was this one like 80 something year old woman who is pretty much just withering away on her death bed. She was so so skinny and her poor cheek bones and mouth were so sunken in, you could not even understand her at all when she tried to talk to the doctor. She had a pleural stroke and was just wimpering like a baby in pain. Sad. All the women were pretty old and they are mostly the traditionally dressed indigenous women with long braids.

This morning we went to the special needs school which went a lot better because we each separated to play with them separately rather than all in one room. I entertained the sweetest girl Jackie, who cannot really use her legs to walk without help or her arms, not sure exactly what is wrong with her, the whole time. She and this little toddler Victor, who has downs and is swollen up and chubby like a little balloon wobbling around everywhere. He is hilarious because he thinks he is like 10 and can do everything that the big boys can like climb all over the slides and stuff. They are so hilarious and precious.

After lunch we went to Rosario orphanage and did a lesson on emergencies, prevention and how to handle them, such as burns, electrocution, earthquakes (which are really common here), and other basic emergency situations. After we just played and I helped a few little girls with homework. It was one of my favorite little girl's birthday the other day, and so I simply made her a card and gave it to her today and I swear she was so so happy to get something like that. They are the mostly loving and affectionate kids. We just sat around after playing and braided the girl's hairs and pour attention on them which they looovee! I have a feeling that they don't get much attention on their birthdays.

Tonight we are going to watch a dance company put on a concert from the US that we got invited to, and probably meet the US ambassador for Peru. Again, hopefully tomorrow I will be feeling better. Peru is the worst place ever to have an awful cold because they don't believe in toilet paper, you can't find it anywhere in bathrooms! ahhh