Last night we finally ventured to leave the house and our whole group went to a cool place with a live band and salsa and latin music and dancing..so fun! This morning back to Daniel Carrion and I had a much better experience. We followed a really nice doctor today on his rounds through mens surgery. He was very nice and was sure to explain everything more in between patients. He also was teaching some of the medical student interns so included us in all his little lectures today, so I learned alot about infections and how to classify wounds in order to know how to treat them with antibiotics or not, how much and for how long. He also explained to them and us about hemorroids and how to tell if something is just a hemmorroid or an abscess or a fistula (in English im not sure), and a lot of other random facts. We saw some more crazy cases today, another nasty anal abscess up front and personal, a construction worker who fell from like 30 feet, and someone with kidney problems who had all kinds of internal bleeding, a man from a small pueblo nearby who got stabbed by a bulls horn in his prostate area-it was awful! and more appendicitis complications. He also took a lot of time explaining to us why Peru, particularly this central highlands region, has the common health problems they do. He said that appendicitis, though it is common in the US too, is different here and usually comes with worse complications because the people who live so isolated from medical centers try to just treat themselves for a while first and take antibiotics they have without consulting doctors first, which in the end causes complications like peritonitis (not sure what this is in English!) He said that the problems of 70% of patients in this area are caused by malnutrition as well as compromised immune systems from other things like AIDS, diabetes, hypertension and other common diseases here. I talked to him about nutrition around this area and how so many people mainly outside of the city in the central highlands villages are just so isolated from water and other things that they are very malnutritioned. Sad that this ends up complicating all of their basic health problems. Anyway this morning was good.

Then we went to the special needs school which was pure CHAOS!! so much respect for people who teach special needs, but here it is crazy they have like 4 teachers total for like 25 children! And they are crazy, the boys get very aggressive and are always trying to fight so its kind of frustrating.

Then we went to Rosario and did lesson on protecting environment and recycling and played lots of futbol!