Community...FINALLY!

This is finally the week that I get to go to the community schools and do the health screenings for the kids. YAY!
I helped with hemoglobin checks today...poked kids and then gave them candy! They were all super cute of course. The school has dirt floors and not many supplies, and the kids are there only until 12:30. (We had to work fast!) The boy and girl in this picture are brother and sisters. She stayed by his side during his poke, and he held her hand as they left school. The siblings seem to be more tight knit here, maybe just because they're more dependent on each other. I don't know, it's so cute though. In general, the kids just gather together a lot and help each other out. These kids in this othe picture gave me a popsicle/slushy thing when they were going home after school. It was kind of adorable that they did that! I couldn't eat it because of the water...so I felt bad throwing it away after they were gone, but it was still really cute. It was a good day. The low point was the 2 hour ride/wait/ride/look at a mechanical cow/ride to get back to the hotel. The van was not air conditioned so well, and there was 10 of us in there so we kind of were all gonna pass out! The "mechanical cow" happened to be a little soy bean squasher/processor for soy milk. The community got one to encourage families in the community to get calcium. I was very confused as to what it was we were going to go look at. When someone first mentioned a mechanical cow, I was envisioning a bull ride simulator. Hah...that's what happens usually. No one really knows what is next or what we're waiting for exactly. Lots of unknowns, but that's just a part of being in a different country!

Somethings are very predictable no matter where you are. Like Zac Efron, for example. Girls obsess over him no matter where you go. Half of the entertainment section of the newspaper today was about Zac Efron alone. Yep! Well, some of us girls needed some good ol' Zac Efron in our lives. We watched "17 again," or "17 otra vez" in Ecuador. Lucky for us, it was in English was Spanish subtitles! It was great acting like teenagers again, eating popcorn, and going to the theater for $3.00.