Update 7

Hey everyone thought I would write you an email. I am now into my first week of my second placement, which is at La Loma Luz hospital.

I am only two days into this placement now, and it is pretty good so far. Mostly I just work in maintenance. We do tasks such as paint houses, wash cars, and clean up sheds. We are hopefully going to have the opportunity to sit in on some surgeries in our time here. Some of my scholastic tasks are to look into the medicinal inventory of the hospital, and possibly do some lab work, and talking to the hospital director it seems as if these things will be possible. At the hospital all the trucks are standard shifts and Nathan is beginning to teach me how to drive them.

This is my first time living off the YWAM base; I am living with a host family in Santa Elena. Santa Elena is right next to San Ignacio, and is where the hospital is located. Our home is now a ten minute walk away from the hospital, which we walk both ways every day. I am living here with Nathan Lamont, a student from TDCH. We have our own guest house, and live very comfortably.

This placement will only be for two weeks, because we worked during our two week break making this a shortened placement. We are able to walk to and from the store down the road if we need to, which is more freedom here than in roaring creek.

After work the one day, we went with a couple of guys from work to swim at a waterfall. At the base of the waterfall the water was about ten feet deep, and the height of the waterfall was about thirty feet. We jumped into the water from the top, and we also swung from a rope swing hanging from a tree over the water. This spot was very beautiful, the water was clean, and it wasn’t very busy.

So far this placement has been good and I hope it continues this way. I am excited to be able to experience some of the work indoors in the hospital, and to watch some surgeries. I am enjoying living off the base and living with Nathan. I will write again later.

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