Random Observations
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 462 Comments »by Carrie The indigenous Mayan women who often visit our clinics are very comfortable with breastfeeding and often feed their babies while meeting with us. However, they are very uncomfortable exposing their bellies as these are viewed as a private area! ...
quiché updates
Friday, July 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1201 Comments »written by Anthony Earlier this week a 21 person surgical team from Houston joined us and shared our living space here. They were here to do plastic surgery and ob/gyn cases in the hospital across the street. They did a bunch ...
Adventures in ChiChi and Xela
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1247 Comments »Written by Carrie Okay hello everyone! So we had our "weekend" break from clinic on Sunday and Monday, and took a road trip to Chichicastenango and Quetzaltenango (Xela) to celebrate. Chichi is a big tourist destination here in Guatemala because of ...
Second clinic day
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1114 Comments »written by Anthony Today we headed to the outskirts of Chichicastenango, about a 45 minute drive from our place. Chichicastenango is a Mayan dominated small village which proudly proclaims itself as the "mecca of tourism". This is somewhat of an overstatement, ...
Our first day at a clinic
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 4776 Comments »written by Anthony Carrie and I had our first clinic day today! First, the briefest of introductions. We are volunteering through a program called Agape in Action (http://www.agapeinaction.org/) which focuses on health care needs of Central Guatemala. We are staying a heavily ...
Hello from Santa Cruz del Quiche!
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 471 Comments »post by Carrie Hi everyone! We made it safely to Santa Cruz del Quiche on Monday after spending the last week backpacking around Guatemala. We had a great time exploring Guatemala City, Antigua, and Lake Atitlan but are now ready to ...