New Year's Day was a long day of travel. Rung in the New Years with Olivia and her family on FaceTime and then went to bed ready for the day. After two flight delays I finally
made it down to Managua. The other flights of the group also had some minor delays but we all made it down that night.
We packed in 2 vans and got dropped off at our homes for the week. We were placed with host families in either groups of 2, 3, or 4. The houses in Granada are so beautiful and the roads are fantastic. This is a very nice town and lucky to stay in such a great area.
After a short sleep we spent Monday meeting with the organization leaders touring the town we are staying in and the area where we will be treating. After that the students were split into groups and meet with their translator to learn about the patients and ask any questions. Our faculty group worked to divide ourselves and try to maximize our help.
We are doing the care in homes which makes it a little harder to divide ourselves. We have a game plan that involves running around (which I like, but most likely will be hard to do ) which may change after tomorrow.
We headed back to our homes for lunch and then had 2 hours to get ready for the afternoon. After unpacking and meeting the neighbors host families I did a little push-up workout at had a great conversation with the host father about working out, language, and ourselves. My Spanish is terrible, but with a lot of charades I felt the conversation went well.
The group split in two for the afternoon with 1/5 of the group teaching children yoga and the rest of us playing soccer with some more children. It was a great time and showed just how good they are at soccer. I even got to do a little first aid on a translator after he ran into a pole and cut his eye open! He is doing great, but glad I got to get some healthcare in today.
Authentic beans and rice filled our plates for dinner and then we all met up to discuss treatment plans and watch some of the Rose Bowl.
We are all ready to start treating tomorrow!!
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