By far my most exciting day of the trip. I didn't think the ride was so bad. We had to ride in the back of the pickups again. It was about an hours ride to the top of the mountain on a very bumpy road with pits & big rocks. I thought it was fun riding in the back where we were being bounced a couple of inches into the air. Oh ya, and on our way up we rode 5 across that tiny pickup. Talk about fun! Well, we had another large crowd waiting for us when we drove up. So we got right to work. I could go on and on about all that went on but for lack of time, here is the highlight of that day.
After triage I stayed to help with crowd control. Wow! there was almost a riot because people were cutting in line and were afraid that they wouldn't be able to see the docs. That is until one of the eye docs came out and told them that they were all going to be seen and to listen to me- Isabel- otherwise they would be kicked out. Needless to say they settled down. But imagine having over 100 people looking at you and trying to give you the most pitiful expression. Ya, I had to decide who went next and everything. Yuck! But I did have fun trying out my Spanish and they sure enjoyed listening to me fumble around. Especially when one of the ladies asked me if I was married or had a boyfriend. When I told her no, she was so shocked and couldn't understand why not. I didn't really want to explain in too much detail so I told her- "porque el necesita ser muy muy guapo." For those of you who don't know Spanish that is a very bad translation for "because he needs to be very, very handsome." Well, that had the whole crowd rolling for quite a while- even the guys that had been hanging around all day thought that that was pretty hilarious. Talk about crazy! They all thought it really neat that these Americanos were trying to speak Spanish. Anyway, back to the crowd control, we had the whole group singing songs with us in Spanish and even in English. They loved to try. When I get the videos of it I will put them up on our family website. I definitely had a blast!
After triage I stayed to help with crowd control. Wow! there was almost a riot because people were cutting in line and were afraid that they wouldn't be able to see the docs. That is until one of the eye docs came out and told them that they were all going to be seen and to listen to me- Isabel- otherwise they would be kicked out. Needless to say they settled down. But imagine having over 100 people looking at you and trying to give you the most pitiful expression. Ya, I had to decide who went next and everything. Yuck! But I did have fun trying out my Spanish and they sure enjoyed listening to me fumble around. Especially when one of the ladies asked me if I was married or had a boyfriend. When I told her no, she was so shocked and couldn't understand why not. I didn't really want to explain in too much detail so I told her- "porque el necesita ser muy muy guapo." For those of you who don't know Spanish that is a very bad translation for "because he needs to be very, very handsome." Well, that had the whole crowd rolling for quite a while- even the guys that had been hanging around all day thought that that was pretty hilarious. Talk about crazy! They all thought it really neat that these Americanos were trying to speak Spanish. Anyway, back to the crowd control, we had the whole group singing songs with us in Spanish and even in English. They loved to try. When I get the videos of it I will put them up on our family website. I definitely had a blast!
The view on our way up the mountain. Another masterpiece created by our LORD & Savior.
This is the line of people that were already there when we drove in that morning.
Waiting in the shade.
Preaching service before they saw the docs.
It seems like Christy was never seen without some cute baby around. :)
As you may know, my nickname is Issy. Well, this little girl came in and we found out that her name is Issy as well. After she found out that we shared the same name, lets just say that I had a little shadow for the rest of the day.
Isabel and Osmin. He literally hung around all day until his mother was seen by the docs. He was soooo cute. He told everybody that he wished that he was 24 after he found out that I was 21. Talk about a schoolboy crush. :)
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