Yesterday we went to Daniel Carrion hospital in the morning again, but this time the doctors were really on tiempo peruano and were taking forever to show up for their rounds, so instead of doing rounds some of the med students taught us how to take blood pressure and we just practiced that forever. That was cool to learn, and a lot trickier than it looks especially with the older equipment. We then went back to Rosario orphanage to do the emergencies and prevention for the other kids who are not in school in the afternoon. In Peru children either go to colegio (school) in the morning or the afternoon, there are two waves depending on your age and the school. After lunch we went back to Rosario to give a lesson on the importance of exercise and eating healthy to the children and a lesson on nutrition to the mothers. This was a fun lesson because we had planned out a sort of field day for the children after the lesson to go with the physical fitness idea. We had all kinds of little relays with balloons, and other silly things, a simon says exercise warm up game, pull up competitions and just other fun running active games like freeze tag and red light, green light, and of course futbol in the end. I don't think a day will go by without all the little boys wanting to play futbol. One thing I have learned with working with children especially in Spanish, you can plan all you want to and put tons of time into a plan, but when it comes down to it nothing ever works out as planned. We are constantly having to be flexible, adjust, and just improvise random games and activities on the spot that just work better because it is often chaotic!

Last night, Lena and I went to a dance studio/exercise class gym nearby to do a dance workout class that Betsy, the volunteer we met from another organization recommended to us. Though it was nearly impossible to find (gyms are pretty much nonexistent here and nobody knew where it was) it was soooo much fun! We had a blast and it was a killer workout! It was basically like a Zumba class, just real Latino dance and not called Zumba, and the instructor was this young guy who was an awesome dancer. We met a few other gringas from Belgium who are actually living here full time and working for another volunteer organization. How in the world you end up in Huancayo, Peru from Belgium I have no idea! We are definitely going back to his class on Friday and maybe Monday night, so fun. We are thinking of trying to learn a Zumba song to teach the psych patients at EsSalud next week! After we went out to eat at Anteojitos, a place we had gone before, which has great wood fire pizza and live Peruvian music. I am starting to feel a little better, but still have a cold and pretty congested. Kind of a bummer. But thankfully I have still been able to do everything, so it could definitely be worse.