So everything started to look up last night when I was dreading getting in an ice cold shower to make things even worse, when miraculously I had a legitimately HOT shower for the first time since I've been here! Ahh, soo wonderful! Then this morning I woke up feeling fine and had my appetite back. Thank God! This morning, we went to Daniel Carrion hospital. I decided to bring some of our many school supplies we have here to the hospital to give to the small pediatric ward, because the last time I went up there I noticed how awful it was. The kids are just sitting in beds in pain with literally no entertainment, no TVs no nothing! So today before we did internal medicine rounds, we went up there and handed out paper, markers, colored pencils, clay, cars for the little boys, and Disney princess stickers for the little girls. They instantly brightened when walked in with all of this, especially the moms were relieved and so appreciative to have something to distract their kids. There were a couple sweet young little girls, 2 and 4 year olds, and their moms, who I particularly talked to for a while. They had both fallen, and the 4 year old  (who was precious and so happy and spunky) had broken her leg really badly and had her legs suspended up in the air at a 90 degree angle and had been there for 2 weeks and still for 1 more week before they were going to cast her leg. Poor thing, but yet she was just as smiley and sweet as ever. One little boy, poor thing could not even talk because his face was so messed up from falling from somewhere really high. This morning made me realize again how much I LOVE pediatrics and really think this is the area for me, because I am just energized and get joy from interacting with child patients and trying to bring them some smiles, even though their cases are sometimes sad. I really realized this when everyone else in my group couldn't wait to leave the ped's ward because it was too sad for them to look at some of the kids, when I felt like I could have stayed much longer! After this we continued with women's internal medicine rounds with Dr. Yumpo, the one we all love so much. We saw many of the same patients, plus a new woman who was poisoned intentionally by her husband, awful! One of the older women, Dr. Yumpo said basically has no good lungs left because of awful pneumonia and her trachea had shifted blocking one of the lungs. Sad because he said there is basically nothing more they can do for her here and she has no financial support from her family so it's not like she can go to Lima to get better care. Basically, she is just buying time til her death. Today was the first day I heard someone speak Quechua, the indigenous Incan language. It was the 96 year old woman we saw last week who was moaning and groaning in pain. Tonight we are taking Dr. Yumpo and Dr. Suazo, the two nicest and most patient doctors with us, out to eat at a restaurant on the plaza. 

After Carrion, we went to EsSalud, the insurance hospital. Today, I was in the psych ward, which turned out to be hilarious when one of the nurses suggested we turn on music and dance. Oh my word! HILARIOUS! Another Peruvian surprise, you never know what you're going to experience here. We all were in a circle dancing to reggaeton and salsa and two of the younger girls were getting down! The men were hilarious because they are so drugged up that they move so slow and act like 5 year olds, so fun. They grabbed us and had us dancing with them in the middle. And then the crazy head nurse had the two young girls sandwich a young male nurse and then made me join the sandwich and act like I was smacking his butt in the air...She was yelling "Castigalo!!" (Punish him!) WOW they don't hold back here...hahah I guess she was trying to make it like a discoteca in the psych ward. But they had a great time. Always an interesting experience in the psych ward. 

After lunch, Lena and I went to the plaza to a cafe and got the best cafe helado (coffee milkshake type thing) that I have ever had at Cafe Grosella. Sooo good. Then just 5 of us girls went to the HIV shelter because the rest were sick, probably from the Chifa (peruvian chinese) restaurant they went to last night, thank God I didn't go already feeling sick... We just helped the kids with homework. They have sooo much homework here for young children. I love helping them with homework, especially with English. After that we just played lots of volleyball, which they love. Alex and I won the competition of who could keep the ball going the longest! haha they looove "volley". Then we taught them the short lesson on handwashing. We gave them all lots of pencils for each of them, and colors and glue and scissors for the group, since they are always doing homework, and they were sooo grateful! They were so careful to put them away and guard them. These children are some of the most well-behaved, precious, and intelligent children I have ever met. We are about to have a lesson from the med students on Health History 2 tonight and then we are taking out Dr. Yumpo and Dr. Suazo as a thank you to a restaurant we really like, Restaurante Detras de la Catedral.