Today we went out and met the group, Hogar de Cristo, that we will be working with in the community. Like the name explains, they help provide thousands of homes for the needy people here in Ecuador. Their whole thing is that they work with "the poorest of the poor" (aka people that make less than $1/day). The organization also provides several other wonderful helps to the community including health teaching and screening which is what we will be helping them with over the next few weeks. It's a Catholic organization, but they apparently don't have a problem working with a bunch of mormones. They even gave us each our own little rosary. Bonus!
Today we got to meet two of the organization's big leaders: Roberto (loved the Spanish accent and usage of vosotros) and Luis. It is a very well organized and inspiring establishment. As a team, we have a great potential for being able to accomplish a lot of good for the Ecuadorian people over the next few short weeks and we are all pretty excited about it.We piled into the ambulance and the truck to go out and tour one of their facilities which was cool. We finally got to go out and see some of the more impoverished areas of Guayaquil and it really got me excited to serve these great people, if with nothing more than just a "smile and eyes filled with hope" which is what one of the Hogar de Cristo directors asked us to do.
After meeting Hogar de Cristo, we all went out to get dinner at "Cafe Rio," the restaurant of the mom of one of our fellow nursing students, David. It was delicious and gave us all a little energy back from the hot day. After a quick rest back at the hotel, we all met up for FHE in our instructor's room. We had a great lesson and then, I tried. . .
PASSION FRUIT!
That is big for me, yeah? It actually wasn't too bad. I don't know how many of you have actually tried passion fruit, but it is very different than any other fruit that I have tried. The "fruit" is almost gray colored inside. But it wasn't bad. I would eat it again, but probably wouldn't buy it for myself. Now it's off to bed to prepare for our first "real" day of clinicals tomorrow!
1 comment:
I hate passion fruit but you are very brave to try it! I love all the cute/white BYU girls smashed into a van. Everything you are doing looks like so much fun!
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