My first full week

Wow what a week it's been. I think I will talk about the clinic first. There are 3 ladies who are there at all times: Caty (director), Monica Mite (asst. director), and Monica Diaz (receptionist). There are 2 other ladies that volunteer; one is named Carol and she is from Texas and she and her husband are mismissionaries here, the other is named Axa and she is from Guayaquil. All of the ladies are really nice. The receptionist is about my age and really likes talking to me-not boasting just telling the truth :) The other, Monica, just turned 40 Thursday and everybody was laughing in a joking way-I kind of sat and listened. My speaking skills aren't good enough yet to make jokes!

Now I will talk about the food. Everything here is so fresh and there are so many kinds of fruits it's crazy. Papayas the size of a cantaloupe or larger, pitaya (I think it's dragon fruit), 3 kinds of bananas. I usually have orange or blackberry juice for breakfast with either cereal (like coco puffs), thick bread toasted with pineapple jam, and coffee with milk and sugar. I may have said some of this before but oh well. The fish is good. I think I had sea bass the other day in the food court. Corbina it's called I think.

Nathalie is the daughter of the family I live with and she works at a German school here in Guayaquil. They had a concert for the students who are in the orchestra and we went. It was really good. They played "All the Way" by Frank Sinatra and "Orange Colored Sky" but don't remember who sings it. Maybe Natalie Cole. A lot of American songs and a lot of solos: trumpet, saxophone, trombone, flugel horn (sp?). I really enjoyed it.

So about pictures. I will put some on my posts but I think I am going to try and put all of them on my facebook if anyone wants to check them out there. One is the view from my bathroom, one the view from Jim and Catys patio, and the other the street I live on.