Just a quick blog to kepp everything up to date. Yesterday in the afternoon I went to work in the cultural centre for children where I helped with the teaching. It was really good fun and the kids are really sweet. I have managed to accrue a gang of 10 year old girls who follow me around so they will probably be my new best friends out here! I basically teach everything, from maths to English and it is actually pretty rewarding when they suddenly understand something. I tried to teach a 10 year old boy called Kleiner how to add and subtract fractions which he found pretty hard. I remember being in his situation, poor guy, althoug rather embarassingly, I came across one question I just could not do, which Kleiner wasn´t too happy about. Needless to say, we will try and do that question again this afternoon. The little girls tried to set me up with one of their teachers which was pretty funny, she is only 20 or so and also wants to be a doctor. Anyway after school with the kids I headed back home to get ready for the most tiring/exciting thing I have done in ages...salsa lessons. The class started at 6:30 and I was one of 3 guys in a room of about 30-40 people. The rest were middle aged women and some of them were really good. I made the huge mistake of wearing jeans which are possibly the most restrictive and sweaty things you can wear when doing what is essentially really coordinated aerobics! I havn´t swetaed that mcuh in long time. The class finsihed at 7:15 but there was another one until 8 which some newly aquired friends (40 year old women) roped me into so I got even more exhausted. I slept very well last night! A lvoely woman called Mariusa gave me a lift home as she lives near buy and told me that we would become best friends :S...she is 30 and has an 8 year old soon but she seems very nice. I am returning to the class tonight and shall be every night Mondya to Friday whilst I am here so hopefully I will be alright by the end. This morning I was in the hospital again and saw 3 operations, 2 of which were relatively small but looked painful. A little girl and fallen down a tree and managed to scrape all the flesh of her arm, not just skin. Another man had in infected finger but the 3rd was the most graphic. A woman came in from the suburbs with a newly born baby in her arms (hers) but still in alot of pain as there was another inside half way out and she had no anaesthesia so I watched that get pulled out with alot of blood spurting everywhere etc. Having seen that I do not envy the ability to become pregnant..not that I ever did! What did surprise me was when the surgeon casually answered his phone in the middle of the operation, it´s pretty relaxed here. You can walk in and out of theatres and noone bats an eyelid. There are so many teenage pregnancies here, the average age for a first child is 15, although there are many who have them much younger than that. Anyway, on that note I will go. I´m home alone tonight as Anna has gone to Quito for 3 days, pretty scary. x