Photos de mi Primera Semana!!

My first week!!

I know this has been a while in coming, but as promised: Photos!



I've been working morings in Belempampa, a smaller version of a public hospital. I will be posting more photos later, but basically, if you abandoned an elementary school for 10 years, then added about 100 pacients a day, you have Belempampa. The picture to the left is of the patients lining up outside the pharmacy to schedule appointments for the next day. Each of the 4 doctors only has 16 appointments a day, so it's first-come first-serve. We've been doing a lot to try to improve sanitation here. Today we brought bars of soap, because they only had one or two bars......in the whole hospital. Missing also: gloves, alcohol, hot water, alcohol, handsanitizer, etc.





This is all of us who are living at our group-stay home (minus one). We live with a family that runs sort of a hostel for the volunteers as part of their house. We went out as a "family" last night. There is a ton of nightlife here because of all the tourists.





























And here is an example of a city "bus" that we take to work and back. This is actually a really nice-looking one. Basically it's a minivan with about thirty people stuffed inside. Literally. You stand, or sit, or lean, or wherever you can. Or can't. Taxis (or the equivalent of an old geo-metro-ish car) are also quite normal, but cost more. (a taxi is 2.5 soles-about $0.75 verus a bus at 60 centimos- $0.20)





And just some general pictures of Cuzco. It's really a beautiful city. The streets always packed with taxis, buses, tons of people, and the occasional animal.

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