Heeey Everyone!So I'm officially in Chone and have been now since Monday! It is a small little town and very cute! There is not a whole lot to do….we leave with a teacher and her husband, and her daughter and her two little children live in a house adjoined to theirs. It is nice. Julie and I share a room which has three beds and a TV, and Peter has a room with 2 beds.We all hangout together tho. It is quite nice…our TV has 4 English channels…we finally have some connection back to the US lol. We work in the only hospital here, so Monday night our Medical Director Dra. Diaz came over to the house to talk to us, she had a conference she would be at all week and therefore she would not be at clinic with us and gave us the name of another doctor to find when we got there Tuesday morning. It costs $1 to get everyone in a taxi here for all of us…pretty nice! On Tuesday morning we arrived at the hospital at 8:30 am and found Dra. Dominguez, she is another Pediatrician but knew that we wanted to see surgery therefore she showed us where our locker was and then took us down to Gynecology for the morning. We were able to see 3 Tubal Ligations, 1 C-Section, and 1 Live Birth! It was a very exciting morning!! We were able to take a ton of pictures! I was also able to scrub in on a surgery until one of the nurses realized I wasn't a medical student…then she didn't let me L tear. That would have been awesome! One of the doctors here is really nice and he has been showing us everything and explaining all the different parts of the Tubal Ligation surgeries as he did them. He would even hold the Fallopian tubes out so we could take some great pictures! The experience has been very different from Quito already and it is only the beginning. In the afternoon we head back to the house for lunch (all 3 meals are provided to us at our house which is nice) and after that we decided to explore the town a little bit and find a grocery store to buy some extra food! We have been enjoying the hot weather. It was probably in the mid to upper 80´s here today and very humid…makes for some hot days! But the showers are freezing cold so that helps some…some! lolOn Wednesday we went back to the hospital in the morning and went back down to Gynecology and also had the opportunity to see the Neonatal Unit!! I was able to see the different little kiddo´s and take lots of pictures. I was able to help a nurse hold a little boy while she inserted a feeding tube down into his throat because he was unable to suck and couldn't get any liquid down. (Mom u would like this unit! Took pictures for u!!) We also got to see another Tubal Ligation surgery, another normal birth, and an STD abscess removal surgery fro m a women's vagina. It is different here because they do not put anyone completely under for surgery only local anesthesia… they women cant feel anything but are still awake for the procedure…and sometimes they say towards the end that they are starting to feel them and are starting to move a lot…ouch! Like in Qutio, the women are alone when they deliver t heir child and cannot have any family members with them in the delivery room at all. I will post pictures later but am warning you now to view at your own discretion as they are pretty graphic!!! It was another great day!!Today we headed over to the hospital to start rotations however the hospital was closed…the doctor we were working with yesterday had said that the hospital was going to be closed today for the celebration that was beginning…therefore the doors were chained closed. We decided we would head out around town and use the internet for a little bit and explore. We are heading down to a town called Puerto Lopez tomorrow and going to the Poor Man{s Galapagos!!Should be fun!

Hope all is going well back Home! Internet is not as easy here as it was back in Qutio so i will prolly not have as many posts and pictures will be posted once back in Quito!

Love and miss u!Love, Britt