These past couple of weeks has been absolutely amazing. It is hard for me to believe that I left the US only a little over a month ago. It feels like I have been here a lifetime and I feel more and more at home here with each passing day. I have truly found my niche within the many projects that our volunteers do here. My favorite days are the ones spent in the hospitals shadowing the Obstetrician/Gynecologist in the morning and hanging out with the medical interns in the afternoon. My relationships within the hospital are growing quickly as I am becoming better and better friends with the medical interns. I have also formed a great relationship with the Gynecologist, Dr. Ricaldy, who now expects to have me observe him daily and seeks me out when I am not waiting in his office in the morning. Dr. Ricaldy is also head of the hospital so I am learning more and more the amount of work that goes into running such an organization. When I am not in the hospital I like to spend my mornings at Zapatitos loving on those sweet boys and learning innumerable lessons from them. I am learning that it takes more than a home to heal childhood wounds and hence I am learning to be patient with God and trust in his healing powers.

I feel so settled here and have already begun to dread leaving. I know that there is so much at home and school to look forward to but I feel so much of my heart settling in to stay. I am not sure when I will return here but I know that I will eventually. I have been planning to take a year off after undergrad before going beginning Medical school and I will hopefully be able to return here at the beginning of that year for at least two months and hopefully more. I just love the Bolivian lifestyle. Their relaxed time schedule, their never-ending hospitality, and their work ethic. These things bring out the best in me and I am going to be very sad to lose these influences in my life. In the meantime, I am going to try to enjoy my last week and as much as I can and to soak up as much of the Bolivian culture as I can.

PS Thank you Myvy Ngo for that last post. Miss you!