Hello

Hello from Nicaragua. As you may have read in the blog from the past few days it has already been an adventurous trip, including the always exciting task of getting on and off the ship to go to our clinical sites. It was never that difficult last summer. Luckily no injuries so far. Kim, Luz, and Nicole have been real troopers. It can be hard to adjust to this setting but I’ll let them tell you about that. The noise, the food, the lack of privacy, etc. I will tell you that we all went out together for long clinical days at very hot and humid sites both Monday and Tuesday and we all will go out again tomorrow and Friday. They all have been doing an amazing job and that isn’t just my opinion but also the opinion of all the other providers at the sites. The providers are very impressed with their knowledge, skills, hard work, and positive attitude. The internet is again a source of major frustration. Well, just have to accept that one. I’ll write more as we go along but I will let the students be the primary bloggers as it is their experience that is most interesting.