August 13th - Mallory's Goodbye

I again had the 6:30 - 9:30am shift at the clinic. After that, Andrés and I went into Guaimaca to buy some supplies for the supper I was going to make tonight. Mallory, a long-term volunteer who was going to stay until September, is heading home on Saturday due to the health of her father. Rachel wanted to have a nice supper for her with all of the volunteers, so I agreed to make guacamole and huevos rancheros (as something different from the food we've been eating around here).

We were only in town for about an hour or so, since I had to be back at the clinic from 12:30 - 5:00pm. Andrés relieved me at 5:00 so that I could start supper. We (Owen, Leigh, Rachel, Andrés, Mallory & I) ate at the school. This is just to give you an idea of the need for volunteers in the month of August. It seems that June & July are pretty full of volunteers. At one point in July, there were over 20 girls in the volunteer dorm - and that doesn't even count the males over in THEIR dorm. But many high school & college age students head back in August to get ready for school.

We had a great time together, and unfortunately since I had lost track of time, I had forgotten to call home by 8pm like I had promised. Andrés had mentioned that Bob was keeping up the kids a little later anyway lately, so that they should still be up...but when I ran back to the dorm to grab my phone, Bob let me know that they had went to sleep early due to their behavior. I chatted with him for a while, before turning in for the evening.