Getting dow n to business

After a great afternoon out in Antigua with the other 30 volunteers on Saturday, this week really marks our first week of working in the health centers in our towns.

We went in on Friday and this afternoon and will be returning on Wednesday to meet all of the health promoters we are meant to be facilitating...in spanish.

As of now we´re really trying to get to know the people who work in the puesto (health center = puesto de salud) and see where we can help out. It´s a lot of asking very shy women questions, and then trying to understand their very quite mumbled answer. It is a bit frustrating, but we´ve only just started, so hopefully we´ll only get better.

On top of that we´ve upped our technical training to at least 3 or 4 times a week, so we can actually have something to teach our health promoters. It´s pretty intensive, but at least we had Saturday to blow of steam: