Yesterday I went back to the home to volunteer again. Another girl from school came with me too because she wanted to have a tour of the place to see if it was a place that she would like to volunteer at for the next few weeks. When we left it was pretty much down pouring. By the time we got to Parque Central, which isn't even half way there, I was feeling pretty drenched and soggy. We got to this one street that was completely covered in water, it was basically a river. Sonal was wearing flip flops and lost one when we crossed the street. She went to grab it but it slipped down the drain before she could! It was pretty funny :) We stopped by the market to get her some new shoes before we kept going.
When we got to the home, they thought I was the psychologist girl again so I explained to them that I was nursing student, so they sent me to work with the doctor at the home for a little while. Me and Sonal worked with the doctor to cut all of the kids finger nails and toe nails and to clean their ears- there's over 80 kids so it took quite a while! When the doctor had to leave, she said we could go too, but I asked if we could go help with the babies until it was time for us to go and she said sure. So I got to go see the cute little kids again. There were so many kids that needed their diapers changed but I could only find one diaper so the baby that peed on me got it- the sqeaky wheel gets the oil :) When the woman working with the babies finally returned, she got more diapers for the rest of them. But, again the kids were unsupervised when we got there and some of the babies were wearing the same clothes that I had put them in the day before. It makes me really mad that these kids aren't getting better care. I'm going back tomorrow for one more day and to hopefully see the little ones again.
Tonight is the graduation dinner for this week. I have to give a speech! In Spanish! It's gonna be pretty short and to the point because I hate speaking in front of people. Joaquin was trying to talk me into singing something, but that was never going to happen haha. I can not believe that tomorrow is my last day! I'm getting a little nervous about figuring out how to get to Quiche from here because no one seems to know what time the bus leaves exactly. Hopefully, I'll get all of that figured out before Saturday morning!
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