August 2nd - Trip to Emmanuel

We had to get up pretty early to catch the 4am Costeños but to Tegucigalpa. Andrés slept the entire way since we had to get some dramamine in him (he's been getting sick on these bus rides). When we got to Tegus around 9:30am, we headed to a Pizza Hut to get some food in his stomach before the ride out to the orphanage. We walked to the Aurora bus station to take the 10:30am bus to Guaimaca (and Andrés slept again while the dramamine did its trick).

Since there were no taxis at the bus stop, we grabbed our luggage and walked to Emmanuel. I'm thinking it's about a 2-mile walk, so it's a good thing that I started running back home (although for you Facebook friends, I still don't enjoy running). It's also a good thing that we only had ONE carry-on and ONE suitcase this year.

When we arrived, we stopped in at the office to meet with Katja and then took our stuff to our volunteer dorms. This year Andrés & I are in separate dorms (as opposed to staying at the farm together last year when Jenny was along). I had supper with the little girls.

There was a volunteer meeting at 4:30pm when I met the other volunteers. Katja put me in charge of the clinic schedule for the week (so I'm really missing Linda right about now, since I'm not really a nurse). Chicken pox is running rampant through the orphanage.