Another busy week

After trying to organize 50 people to go to two separate locations everyday last week, working with a group half that size, and sending everyone and everything to only one site, has seemed like cake. This week has been great, clinics went smoothly (over 1300 people attended our three clinic days), we were so kindly welcomed into each of the three communities where we worked, I had a running partner, and because clinics ran so efficiently, we had plenty of time for fun (swimming at one of our contact's farm homes, playing with kids at the orphanage in Choluteca, lots of soccer playing, etc.)

I've also come to the conclusion that I have the world's most non-traditional job, and most days that's pretty awesome.

Yesterday, my day went something like, go for a run, drink coffee, submit financial reports, travel with group of student volunteers to hospital, schmooze with hospital contacts, have news camera in my face for an interview, send group to tour hospital while I take care of some errands/logistical things, go to the banco central to buy coins for a project in the US where the guy working had to ask me a series of questions about my intentions for the use of the coins before he would hand them over (and we are talking the equivalent of $0.75 worth of coins.....), pick up scholarship applications for a bilingual school, swing by ATM, go to grocery store to buy juice boxes for kids at the orphanage, go to restaurant to pick up food for hospital staff who helped with the tour (while here waiting for carry-out order, meet with a journalist who wants information for a news article on the organization), return to hospital, distribute food to hospital staff, visit nicu to see a precious, month-old Honduran baby girl whose mother abandoned her (very seriously wanting to take this girl home with me or find someone here who could take care of her...), round up my crew of students to travel to orphanage where we delivere juice boxes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, crayons and coloring books, piñatas, and a three month supply of food...interview girl who completed high school with really good grades and is looking for a way to attend college, travel to San Lorenzo for drinks and appetizers at restaurant right on the water, power nap back in Pespire, dinner, play soccer, spend a couple of hours responding to work emails, play cards till 1am, and call it a day. Full day.

The other thing that's pretty awesome is that each day brings some kind of challenge, but every day is different, and while things rarely go according to plan, which can sometimes make things crazy and hectic and stressful, everything works itself out at the end of the day.

It's hard to believe it, but it's Saturday...beach day with my last group before I come home next week. Time here has gone so fast!