Happenings at the Stricklands: 2007

Friday, August 10, 2007

Random Shots

In case you were wondering, I have not forgotten William's post but that will be another day.

A picture of most of the team on Friday afternoon before everybody started leaving :(

Some of the group in the Miami Airport waiting for our flight to Honduras.

Colonel Hawker teaching little Timmy Waller how to march military style.

Clinical Day 4- Choluteca

Well, this was the last clinical day. We were all a little tired but thankfully this was our easiest day. This time we had the clinic at the church there in Choluteca.

Just couldn't quit taking pictures with the little kids. :)

Doctor Suh's "office"

Doctor Kenya's "office"

Doctor Waller's "office"

People waiting to register with one of our ladies making sure that no one goes where they are not supposed to go.

Tired triage- or what was left of it.

Missionary Mrs Ritchie cooking some yummy soup for lunch.

The pharmacy interpreter- Immanuel posing for the camera.

The missionary's daughter Sasha doing a silly pose for the camera.

Missy after a long day of triage.

Me and Mr Henry Abbott- my favorite man. He loved my hair and loved to play with it.

Me with 2 of the Panamanian ladies and a dentist from Honduras.

Me with Doctor Kenya.

Our lunch crew for the day. William and Joseph/Joe/Joey- he wouldn't tell me which name he preferred to be called by ;)

Look at those sandwiches. Working away & trying to get them all done in time for lunch (that is if I would just leave them alone ;)

William making a few more. It seems they didn't realize how hungry everybody gets when they have been working hard all day with not much of a breakfast. :)

Me with another cute girl who just wouldn't leave me alone :)

Mrs Alfaro and Karen- the youngest girl from the Children's Lighthouse which is basically an orphanage that the missionaries have started.

Mrs Waller and Jenny- one of the girls from the Children's Lighthouse.

Doc Waller, Mrs Alfaro (the interpreter), and Julie- another child from the Children's Lighthouse.

Getting a picture taken with cute little Eric- the youngest from the Children's Lighthouse.

The nursing highlight of the trip (JK:)- getting to clean this little guy's ears.

A picture of me actually cleaning this little guys ear.

We even had the police come out and help us here.

Well, we got on TV again. Here is our director and interpreter doing an interview. For those of you who don't know, I have been on 2 different countries TVs- Mexican and now Honduran. Exciting! :);)

Clinical Day 3- Whensawe

Yay, I actually got to see my bro. He looks just a little warm & worn out from all the hard work.

Triage. Ya, that's me in the white and green with my sleeves tucked in. It was soooo hot that day. We were in a walled compound with no breeze and no clouds.

Our lunch crew for the day, Dave & Jason.

The pharmacy interpreter, I believe his name is Immanuel.

Waiting in the shade by the only tree in the area.

Dentistry- not every little kid's favorite place.

Doctor Kenya- she came up from Panama to help us.

The eye tent.

Mrs Waller with a new supply of our most treasured item- cool water.

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!

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. :)