Hola! Beunos Dias mi amigos!!! Monday was our second clinic day. We set up a clinic at the "25 de Enero" (25th of January) village school house. The school was a four room building with a small playing field, right in the center of one of the squatter villages.We used the small desks to create our stations and began seeing patients at 9am.My partner, Bekah, and I saw about 6 families throughout the day.When I say families, I literally mean every family member living in a house.When we started, I thought that we would see one patient at a time, like we do in the United States, so it was pretty intimidating seeing an entire family sit down at our table and hand us their triage sheets each with multiple problems to address.The main problems we saw were parasites and urinary tract infections.It was a REALLY long day. Or maybe it just seemed like it because it was SO hot and muggy in that school room. I sweat through all of my clothes and was so lethargic, I felt bad for the people I was talking too because it was difficult for me to stay enthusiastic being SO uncomfortable.I wondered if the children felt like I did when they sat in class all day or if they were used to the Jungle humidity. They looked like they were used to it.It took me a while to figure this out but I learned that when someone says they have a "cold" or "kidney pain" they may be taking about having symptoms that I would never relate to either of those problems.For example one woman came to our table and said that she had a cold. Ok, so I asked "Do you have a runny nose or a sore throat"? She said no and told me that her symptoms were headache, right eye pain, and a rash. I was SO confused! Another woman said that she had "kidney pain", and I actually wondered for a half of a second if it was possible to feel your kidneys….turns out she had strained her lower back while lifting heavy loads of laundry to and from the river and was referring to the area of pain as being by the kidneys. I was also very impressed with this; most people do not even know where their kidneys are!! So by the end of the day I decided to throw my definitions of ailments out the door and just listen to what the people tell me and try to put the pieces together as I go!!That night Tava, Olga and I stayed up late drinking tea, and working on our Dehydration teaching project to be used the next day (we are officially international procrastinators)!! Tuesday morning The Pharmacy guys left to tour the school of Pharmacy and the nursing students went to tour "Universidad Nacional De La Amazonia Peruana", the City's college of nursing. The campus was nearly empty, we were told that the faculty is on strike (unhappy about low wages) and class will not resume until June 1. We began our tour in the nursing lab that contained the usually lab stuff: anatomical models of organs, a few skeletons, practice mannequins, and model houses……wait….modelhouses….WHAT!!!Turns out that, for community health projects the nursing students consult engineering students and then design functional water wells, cabinets to keep food clean, and houses…all out of materials found in the jungle. Then they go to the Jungle and teach people how to build these things. AMAZING!!! Nurses designing "green" homes!!!! I was SO jealous (considered structural engineering as a career at one point)!!!We met the dean of the college and learned a few interesting facts. Women graduates of the college have difficulty finding work in Peru and many are recruited by Italian healthcare systems. The number of men graduating from the college is growing because there is an increasing demand for nurses (men) in the industrial area, primarily private oil companies. Another interesting fact is that the nurses are required to go to school for 5 years (we only need 4). Their 5th year is "investigation" where students focus on a specific area like surgery or pediatrics…..so they are ready to start working immediately after graduation, unlike U.S. nursing students who need additional on the job training. Oh! And I saw the Peruvian food pyramid on display. At the base was 8 glasses of water a day- way to go Peru!! Next was Carbohydrates (I don't agree with this…), then veggies and fruit, then shellfish and fish, then milk and red meat on the same level (this makes sense), then sugar at the top.On our bus ride back to the compound I did a little survey with my roommates. I asked "After one week in Peru, what luxury of home do you miss the most"? Tava said "Borsh", a Russian beet and cabbage soup. Liliya said "My nice bed, and soup". Bekah said "Not chicken!" (her favorite food at home but had OD'd on it here). Yulia said "My king size tempurpedic mattress", and Olga said "My Privacy"!! I said Starbucks latte's and Diet Coke. After I said that I realized how ridiculous it sounded. Here we are lacking toilets that flush, clean beds, warm showers or insect free rooms….I could care less……I just want a Diet Coke!! After having a lunch of beans and rice back at the compound we took off to the orphanage to do our teaching project.The orphanage is government funded, currently has 63 children, 21 were adopted this year, and most of the children were either abandoned by their families or taken out of abusive situations. The children LOVED our hands on teaching projects…dehydration, hand washing, dental care, healthy heart, and all about germs!!! We loved the children as well!! We were sent with some funds raised by WSU students to use as we feel fit…..we all felt that at least some of it needed to go to the orphanage. For dinner we went to a restaurant in the Plaza called "The Yellow Rose" know in town for its specialty dish…Alligator!! There were some great oil paintings by local artists on display and for sale in the restaurant. If I can figure out how to get them home with me, I would like to go back and get a few.The perfect ending to this wonderful day was scoring some Fucci (Fake-Gucci) shades for $5 on a corner….I forgot to bring sunglasses and have been looking for some all week!! Goodnight!!