Friday February 22, 2008
Our longest day of the week time-wise. Usually our days begin at 8:00am and end at 5:00pm with travel, setup, and breakdown built in. Today, we traveled to the town of Canoa which was a short distance away, so our net work time was solid from 8:30 to 4:30; no lollygagging with a lot of travel to and fro.
137 patients today, with approximately 450 RX's. Our base was Escuela Canoa, a school. Large classrooms were used and space was a luxury not seen so far. Gnats were commonplace here. Bugs and mosquitoes were ubiquitous in their pestering of us, but today, the gnats were especially bothersome. Breathe them in your nostrils, get them in your eyes, squish them in your ears. Awful. However, the spacious environment of our pharmacy digs was most welcomed.
A good day to end our work week. And the festivites Friday night were lively indeed. A Dominican dancing troupe and band entertained the hotel bar. And around 11:30pm a group of us summoned a cab to take us to Club Atlantis in Barahona for some salsa dancing. We sweated and moved and enjoyed ourselves until 2:30am, when we walked back to the hotel as a group. Safety in numbers. Again, we work hard and play hard.
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The Salsa dancing would be a great addition to this blog, any videos? Sounds like an awsome experience (the whole trip, not just the dancing)
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