Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday

Our day had been planned to visit hospitals with interpreters from the Evangelical University here.  However, at 7AM this mornig, we found out we had been scheduled to do a clinic in La Libertad.  We began our wild rush to get dressed and get to the clinic site.  Once we arrived at the site, we discovered our boxes of supplies were not there!!!  So, we took a few minutes and enjoyed the Pacific.  Once the boxes of supplies arrived, another wild rush to get them unpacked and a "pharmacy" set up.  Then, our awesome bus driver, that can parellel park a bus within centimeters of other cars (whew!), informed us a tsunami was heading our way!  Even though we were quite concerned, we opened the gates for our clinic to begin because we had a line of patients waiting for us.  Quite interesting our day -- no translators -- we relied on lots of body language and our Spanish dictionaries.  Our awesome bus driver, who stays with us all the time, kept us updated on the tsunami as we worked very diligently to see all the patients.  Our great friends we met here helped us get supplies packed up, and we made it off the beach before the tsunami was scheduled to hit.  We made it to Nora's home, who owns the beach property the clinics are held on, and visited for several hours. While there, we were able to watch TV to see all the devastation which happened today in Japan.  :-(  We visited the artisan market here in San Salvador for soveniers, then headed back to the hotel; we're now chillin, tired, and ready for bed.  Goodnight all...   Susan and Ash

1 comment:

  1. Great looking group of ladies making a difference in the world. Hope everyone is safe and can't wait to see more pictures!

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