August 6th - The Clinic Gets Medical Supplies

I woke up about 5:00am and read a couple of chapters in another book I brought. I went to the young/medium girls circle again today and saw Doris, an older girl I had met in the circle yesterday. I am going to try to learn at least one new name each day. Hopefully they will let me take a picture of them as well.

After circle, I came back and met Sheila at the volunteer house door. She is a long-term volunteer and works in the health clinic here at the orphanage. She's decided to go to college to become a nurse when she returns to the State in late October. We took the medical supplies to the clinic that Linda had sent. Sheila was very appreciative of all the supplies and mentioned that the arm sling would come in handy since she just got back from the Teguc hospital with a girl from Orphanage Emmanuel who had broken her arm. When we arrived at the clinic, there was already a line formed to see Sheila.

After that, I headed back to the storage room at the school to do some more organization. Esti joined me after about an hour to help. I'm still nowhere near done, but did manage to open and put away ALL the boxes of notebooks - or so I thought...until I found 5 more boxes! I had been working for two and a half hours and my stomach was really starting to growl, so I locked up and we went down to see Verónica in the restaurant. We each bought a chicken taco for 13 Lempiras (about 60 cents in USD). They were big and filled us up. Then I went to the internet cafe to post my journal.

I saw Doris on the way back to the volunteer house and I think she's excited to be the 1st person whose picture I take. On the way back, I also saw the girls getting into groups to check each other for lice. This is a routine thing here and there is a rule that any girls who do not comply get 3 inches cut from their hair. The orphanage wants to ensure that the children practice good hygiene.

Esti and I put in two more hours on the storage room. I can see a little progress has been made now, but still have a long way to go! I ate supper with the young girls - tortillas, beans, salad & fried bananas. Then I took a picture of Doris before heading back to the volunteer house.

At 5:00pm there was a bible study for the older girls (ages 16+). The topic was on respecting your elders because their advice is due to their experience and also to leave your problems in God's hands for Him to handle in God's time.